she wonders
sometimes
how it feels to fall
to look down and see
a gaping void
to be trapped in
some breathless descent
and surrounded by
smooth black cliff walls

well, now she knows
what it feels like to fall
to reach out
try to catch
try to slow
and feel nothing
but air
slipping through her
fingertips

and now all she
wonders
is what waits for her
at the end
on the bottom
of this chasm
this void
what she will reach
what will ever
conclude
this rapid descent
that she's trapped herself in