Flying While Falling Poem by Lonnie Hicks

'I never feel better, she said, 'than when falling in love;
weightless, I fly

sometimes fluttering
like summer's swallows.'


'I never feel better
than when I feel I have been enough'
he said,
'for you to love.'

'I remember she said
'the fear before the leap, afraid to fall
but I leapt for you
even though it is was against all my instincts
to swan-dive from high cliffs.'


'I, ' he said
'was beside you
we two in unison
hovering there, I remember
soaring, gliding
ignoring
no, defying
the very existence of ground;
I had my doubts too thinking:

fools always fly high before the fall
I thought.

but gliding winds sustained us in the early months
in that cloud-canvass bliss we call love-
gravity we defied

not ever knowing
the existence of ground,
learning the art of treading lightly.


But a slow orbit had us circling
closer ever more
toward ground
and flyings' end
but then


were given
new wings-
those of an angel-
our child.

We fly once again
this time with new wings
those which come with family.