I wish I knew what you thought about at night, alone in your bed when the lights are off. When the lights are off and I am alone in my bed at night I think about breathing. I think about breathing like I think about writing, and when I think about writing I think about my mom. There was a dip in the road near my childhood home, and every time we drove over it she would go just a little too fast. Every time we would jolt quickly up and down in our big grey van. And every time the pit of my stomach would get lost somewhere in the road behind us. It was always hard to breathe. When the lights are off and I am alone in my bed at night I think about breathing. I close my eyes and feel my chest rise and fall. I want a rose and I miss the fall. It was cool in the fall and crisp and clear. I wonder what the weather was like during the Fall of the Roman Empire? If it was warmer or colder than its Rise? Why am I so scared to rise? It is easier to fall. Fall in love every day. Fall into bed. Fall asleep. Fall into your arms. When I fall in my dreams I don’t always wake up. I don’t think that is normal. When I fall in my dreams I am given a chance to reconcile them. When I fell in love with you I was not allowed this closure. But the joy existed in the fall, and maybe also in the fact that you wouldn’t fall. Fall with me now. We will rise together. But not until the summer sun burns our eyesand melts our bodies. Unti l then let us fall.