Freefall

What do you think about when you’re in free fall?

When you have no chute and down is the only place you’re going.

Surrounded by endless blue, above and below you.

What is sea and what is sky, in my panic I think I would only see one.

The wind rushing past you or you past it is deafening I would imagine.

Would I scream the whole way? Or would I blissfully accept it?

Would I remember only good parts of my life?

Would I drown in bad ones and what ifs?

I crash towards the surface like a falling star.

I do not know what I would do, there’s no escaping the impending end.

And would I be brave enough to watch my descent to the ocean?

Or would I look skyward? Trying in vain to forget my fate.

I don’t know if I’d close my eyes as the surface quickly approaches.

These few minutes would last an eternity.

All I know is that I could just let go, surrender to the azure drop.

I would really have nothing else.