you remember the fall.
the fall from thirty thousand feet.
the fall you never would have imagined.
crashing into pavement, so unforgiving.
breaking into a shrapnel so small you never thought anyone would fit them back together.
you remember lying there wondering how long you would feel this way.
wondering how anyone could leave you;
so alone, so broken... fallen.
then one day you wake up and realize, your scrapes & bruises, are gone.
the cuts you felt so deep,
the cuts you never thought would heal,
were now all memories.
the fall it's self, hanging in the back of your mind as just that,
a memory.

you remember the fall.
you remember the Friday night lights.
you remember the trees changing colors,
and how even the leaves themselves, were falling.
watching the world from a new perspective,
before long, you realize how beautiful falling really is.
standing alone in the crowd,
you watch the boys of fall.
you see how wonderful the fall can truly be.
before long, this too is merely a memory.
the fall; breezes by, & then hangs in the back of your mind as just that,
a memory.

you remember the fall.
so sudden, & so comforting.
simply breath taking.
you stumble, then all at once you fall.
you try to catch yourself, but it's just too late.
you've fallen.
it's the best fall you could have stepped into.
you're afraid of the pain that is to follow.
for you've fallen before & you know what is to come.
but this time you've fallen for someone so different.
you've fallen for the fallen.
"the fallen"- you ask?
sure he must be, he has fallen from heaven directly.
you've fallen & landed so softly in his arms.
this fall will never fade, it's like nothing you have ever felt before.
you pray that this is your last fall....
you hope for this fall to last forever,
to never become a fallen memory.

you & me,
falling now,
in the middle of just that,
a memory.

-k.h.