Trapeze Artists

Trapeze Artists

Then I say to you fall

Forget safety harnesses on this trapeze

And leap for all the sense of that rip chord

Of exhilarating liberation that is love

Popping domino explosions inside your chest

Forever sense of self preservation set aside

For the daring do to believe a woman can defy gravity with impunity

And believe that I will catch you

I will lay hold to your salvation in the brands of these arms

Outstretched and shielded from the wire brush burns

Of operating so close to damnation to feel the singe of failure

Like a bristling wind upon the cheek of a bunkered pheasant

For the foxes of this world have fed enough

And now is a time to brave the leap into open air

Testing the boundaries of what can be

Taking action to the impending pressures of this system

Setting your yard stick distances for so long

Under professional discretion to maintain control of that which could

Confound and enslave you into a yolk of feeling for a heart

Beyond the boundaries of the length of these ropes

And the braces can assure your security

You have pumped the bursting of my being into undulating spasms

Incapable of maintaining the civility to simply enter data into my time and billing system

During my work day, which has fallen on its face into a wreck of non productivity

Jump, leap upon this frame and lay waste to these dragons of lethargy

Bolting your feet to the stand and lay claim to that which you want

Separate the conundrum of what-ifs into a bullet of yes

And shoot me in the sky and I will fall for you

Humbly obedient to the gravity of your voice