Fall
written by: Emma Wells
If I allow myself,
I will fall.
Amidst gnarly thorns,
snags and deep lashes,
I shall find you,
buried deep in undergrowth,
waiting to be reborn.
Sheer, lucid need
stretches sinews taut,
reaching for an invisible you:
a mirage on the horizon,
disappearing in plain sight.
To fall is to erase myself
yet how sweet the destruction –
marrying heaven and hell
in one heady gulp,
unwrapping barbed wire layers
until I rediscover you,
fall into your chest:
smudging, blurring identities.
If I fell into a mirror,
would you catch me?
Be my breathing hole?
I sense your presence
beneath reflections,
luring as a troubled ghost,
unable to settle – without me.
Emma is a mother and English teacher. She has poetry published with various literary journals and magazines. She enjoys writing flash fiction and short stories also. Emma won Wingless Dreamer’s Bird Poetry Contest of 2022 and her short story entitled ‘Virginia Creeper’ was selected as a winning title by WriteFluence Singles Contest in 2021. Recently, she won Dipity Literary Magazine’s 2024 Best of the Net Nominations for Fiction with her short story entitled ‘The Voice of a Wildling.’ Her first novel is entitled 'Shelley’s Sisterhood' which is due to be published in late 2023.
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