Gravity’s Inevitable Lesson

Loving you is like trying to walk on slippery ice 

Suddenly I realize how lucky I was to have friction under my feet 

Something I have done my whole life now feels like fighting a river’s current 

I am locked in a bad dream, one where I’m running in slow motion

I feel like a cartoon character, a piece of fiction, an invisible audience laughing at me

Landing on dry pavement is like reaching a lighthouse in a storm 

I am washed with a wave of weary relief as my muscles exhale 

I marvel at the mundane horror of daily Winter commutes

But it is too hard to avoid walking on ice my entire life 

And it is too hard to avoid loving you my entire life 

So I commit to these conditions, aching calves and all

Forgetting the habitual humiliation that harrows my heart 

And find myself stranded on the sidewalk’s mirrored tundra once again

Wishing I had ice skates or grippy boots 

Debating if I should give up my timid tiptoeing 

And just make my peace with gravity’s inevitable lesson

Reviews

[Soren]

This piece contains not only metaphor but internal subtleties of rhyme that give a very pleasant and Deja vu like feel to the poem. Very nice

[nadia dmitri]

Thank you very much, I love your interpretations :)

[Grant]

Just read "This Feeling." Said I would be visiting your page. So glad I did, having found this one at such a fitting time in my life.

[nadia dmitri]

I am so glad you liked it, thank you for your kind words :)!