"Fall"

Temptation of the highest order,
It reaches out to grab you, pull you
Down, down, so soft and lovingly into
It’s warm embrace, dashing your frailty
Against the sharp rocks of deceit.

And you can’t escape. There it is,
And here, lying beside you, dogging
Your dreams. How it taunts you.
How it tortures you so. You fight, yet
At the same time
Long to succumb.

But you can’t. You mustn’t.
So you sit in the dark, quietly,
Listen to the breathing around you,
Within you, without you. Lying in wait
For the freedom that must surely come
Yet never does. And it bides its time,
Waiting for you to trip up, to stumble, to

Fall.