Falling feels like slingshotting your body from metal birds At colored patches, verdant, oceanic, supposed Earth That comes so slowly towards you, at fifteen thousand feet That falling feels like flying then, like floating, Like dirt is fiction and what you know are only facts
Fact: your eyes were never made to be binoculars You can’t make them focus on something so far away, Can’t make them telegraph up the brainwires, Shouting incomprehensibly about fear
It’s too far. They won’t do it. Sky divers call this distance illusion. I call it sanity when an ending comes howling across the sightline, Unavoidable, solid, unfeared Inside your head is the lie that you aren’t really that far, That this distance is tame space, That you are impossible and airborne
this is a work in progress! one day it will be amazing