Poem - She falls

walking into the adult world

layers of illusions peeling away

and the emptiness beneath us all coming into view

the veneer of our security so thin

we are a lost race on a world

falling into space and our dreams

are a taste of death, first thing in the morning

and the last hour of night

in my minds eye

everyone I love is gone

it falls away

no island so remote

as to be beyond the touch of tragedy

we destroy it all and it destroys us

we live on borrowed time and the pain

catches up in the end

we pay for all our sweet days

all the debts are collected

There is no peace.

there are moments of joy.

touch on my skin

love in their eyes

dreams in my heart

but the dark always comes

and the light is so frail

all our hopes unwoven

our allotted happiness

spent like sand through glass

what does it all mean?

I hold her hand

and I can feel her slipping

night has its teeth in her skin

We live, we love and we die.

each moment is pulled like a cloth

over the emptiness beneath us

over the screaming terror and the helplessness

the hours that torture and the dreams that sustain

We fly a little, and then we fall.