We jump

to our elsewheres
somewhere
most likely in the stars
beyond sky limit:
we were told we could
were we not? (some
were not, nevertheless we
jumped
because also someone
somewhere to
elsewhere
jumped).
We will come tumbling
down. Heaven some lightyears
away, we cannot
escape it, we are not
fast enough, we cannot
reach the velocity necessary
                            to not
stumble,             to not
trip on our feet, to not
rocket ourselves back
down home (come home
mama cried), cannot
go elsewhere:
world is all that is the case
the weight of it
soft heavy caress
it will always bring you
down, you will
always
skin your knees
         your ankles
it will always bring you
down, you will
always
look towards that
elsewhere
with eyes
light beams
telescopes
film screens
numbers
words
but it
always, always
brings you down
this great weight
not only the Earth
but the everything
that attracts everything
with mass, even you
and your smallness
are heavy enough,
even light and its
flickers
is heavy enough;
elsewhere
is
somewhere
is
home
are
words which grasp
at that thing that we
tried to remember
before our eyes
close finally and

we fall.