FALLING

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” - Albert Einstein

The creative meme of Magpie Tales this week has chosen “Flying Down”, 2006, by David Salle to stimulate the imagination of participants. Here is my contribution:
 

The Fall
 

The shot rang out

Crashing into the silence

Like a falling crystal chandelier

On marble floor.

Icarus fell precipitously

With a comet trail of feathers

And a gush of blood

Swallowed up by a hungry sea.

My fear of flying

Proved justified as I fell,

After I fell for you,

And then fell out of your favour.
 

A vortex swallows up all my debris

The hungry maws of Charybdis

Consume all of my hopes

My dreams fuel the gnashing Scylla’s jaws.
 

A flight of fancy,

An ill-fated pleasure trip,

A fall, a rough landing, a crash,

And a death foretold by myth, or was it the tarot?