Sunday, January 28, 2007

Freefall Mechanics

We dont choose

its vital to absorb this one fact
or else each step will be two steps back
and its only after you have lost your mind
that it will occur to you to pause and rewind
by which time it'll be far too late
for love doesnt wait
or give second chances
there's no such thing as resuscitated romances
love never dies, it just changes
thus ex-lovers wind up strangers
only till some trivial item triggers a lost memory
then they risk that one night at the cost of everything
and just let themselves devolve into an unholy mess
that's what happens when the young confuse love with loneliness
so listen to my every word
such that if it be the last thing you ever heard
then nothing else would be worth being said
listen to me before love is dead
there is only so much we can control
but you gotta lose it first to win it all
there's no way to make myself understood
yet sounding crazy can do some good
when speaking of insanity as a manifestation
of your seemingly inextricable situation
pay attention because i have stumbled upon the key
to letting go and flying free
see when i confronted my deepest fears and panics
it was revealed to me the secret of freefall mechanics:

We dont choose who we love

we stand on the edge of the cliff and dive
and should we die, at least we'll know we were alive
which means destined or befated, we cant lose
as for who holds the keys to our hearts, we cant choose.

5 comments:

Cheri said...

"We dont choose who we love"

That line had me really thinking!!!!
Just snapped back to reality!

ish said...

I'm still thinking aout that line too... aint sure whether or not I completely agree. I mean, isn't the power of loving someone in the fact that you choose them??

and i must comment on your style, do you "too dream in color and in rhyme?" (J-Ivy said that) i gotta say, rhyming is hard! and you always go into different patterns and stuff, gotta give u props for that.

when i try to rhyme, it's like "ok, i know what i wanna say, now to find something that rhymes with it..."

Klara said...

I swear I love this post...(The kind that makes me have teary eyes)
How true one can never choose who she falls in Love with..I have wished It was a choice I made bt the few times it has struck me It always got me unwares
Thanx 4 da advice!!!

Anonymous said...

whence cometh all this wisdom, young man?

Minty said...

I love the sound of this poem ( I hope you are not one of those who hate that word 'poem' - come to think of it, I've never seen you use it-) and that part about losing it first to win it all.