How And Why We Go Down

How and why we go down
regardless, sometimes we go down.
You know the fall: how dark,
how desperate,
how long.

Sometimes
we even ask the fall
to rescue us from
unguarded heights,

but other times
the fall commands, and who then
truly stands?

But if you fall,
if you cannot hear me call to say
that you will climb back up one day, at least
I would throw down flowers;

I would throw down flowers
if it is all I can do;
I would throw down flowers
for you.

January 15 2010