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The Fall

S. R. Mearns

We were falling from the tall tree we’d been happy in
Accelerating nauseously through the small green leaves
Whips, thorns & troublesome branches
That decorate full grown trees.
Thundering downward toward uncertainty,
Impact and probably injury, to what happens next
Too fast for stopping, but too slow for certain death
We experienced a hollow feeling between depression and despair
Where some people holiday all their lives
Couldn’t we have managed this differently?
Why didn’t we hang on in there, why did our grip loosen
Time stood, like a frosted dawn garden
And a myriad of memoirs flicked fleetingly across our brain
Then the impact came -
A rush of pine needles neurological activity and pain
Then nothing
I got up, damaged, but functioning, i limped away
Inwardly tarnished, but outwardly serviceable
My heart however, i was told later, was uniquely broken,
Unmendable, ah such absences!
it was buried at sea, on or near Castle Beach, Tenby
Where on 28th June two thousand and fourteen
You yourself found it while shell diving
One application of super glue, and a defibrillator or two
And you looked into my eyes, and gave it back to me
I can only thank you.

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