The window seal in my apartment became very tempting today.
So tempting that I opened the window, crawled to the outside,
and stood shyly on the ledge. Four stories up and a thousand to the sky.

I yelled and no one noticed, and I walked and no one saw.
The wind gusted and my knees wobbled,
and the bricks crumbled, and my arms jousted
with the strong air and the loud noises.

Jump, fall, fall, fall, fall, LIFT.
My stomach which had been begging to jump out my throat,
sunk swiftly to the bottom of my toes as direction changed
and falling faltered.

And sleep faded, and the dreams swaggered back to
the bottom of my soul.

Oh, to have a waking life.