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(Message started by: Jeepgun on Dec 22^nd, 2004, 7:45am)

Title: Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Dec 22^nd, 2004, 7:45am

Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull

Swaying on the narrow ledge
forty-six stories up.
The blue lights of the nightsky shout
in my bloodshot eyes while
the cello wind sings through
girders and glass, slapping me and
stealing my breath.

Through gritty teardrop haze, the
blurring tilted world spins below and
your photo with your jagged smile ripping
your face open and exposing your glaring teeth
flutters and falls
from my fingers like
a sparrow snared in barbed wire.

Toes hanging in empty space, I
consider one little step: How irrevocable, how the
ledge would look as I fell away, wondering if I would grab
in vain for it, and at what point I would surrender to grim
velocity and screaming space, wondering what my last thoughts would be,
and whether my heart would stop before
IMPACT
Or if I would plummet with eyes as white and round as peeled grapes,
bloody laughter sweet and metallic in my throat
as the brutal concrete rushed to split me like an overripe tomato.

-Frank H. Weeden

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pu
Post by Ree on Dec 22^nd, 2004, 7:59am

Frank don't make me come in there........ Awesome poetry though the topic makes me a bit nervous... God bless and know we are here for you always........ Ree

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pu
Post by Jeepgun on Dec 22^nd, 2004, 8:10am

;;D All is well, Ree. [smiley=hug.gif] I love high, precarious places. :)

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pu
Post by Ree on Dec 22^nd, 2004, 8:20am

on 12/22/04 at 08:10:22, Jeepgun wrote:

;;D All is well, Ree. [smiley=hug.gif] I love high, precarious places. :)

I guess you do... I don't isn't that funny... I have always been afraid of heights. I actually get tunnell vision when I am up high somewhere. I could actually feel it when I read that poem......... be well and have a great day... I'm rushing around today so I am posting early... gotta get ready for the weekend........ Happy Holidays.

In the wake of yesterdays tragedy... Thanks for your service to our country also... There is a special breed of young men that are serving in Iraq for whatever reason. Its almost a paranormal experience for most of them. I am proud to know you.
Now go and write something happy........... love ya Frank ~~~ Ree~~~

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pu
Post by Jeepgun on Dec 22^nd, 2004, 8:27am

on 12/22/04 at 08:20:26, Ree wrote:

Thank you, Ree. I am proud to know you, and think of you and your son, everytime I read or hear something about Iraq, and always, I send a kind thought to you both. I was glad and proud to serve. It was the best six years of my life, so far. :)

I promise to post happier things in the near future. :) [smiley=hug.gif]

-Frank

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pu
Post by Langa on Dec 22^nd, 2004, 8:31am

[smiley=huh.gif] :-[

Glad to know you're okay though...

Langa :)

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pu
Post by Jeepgun on Dec 22^nd, 2004, 8:36am

Thanks, Langa. It's amazing the things that a chitty relationship can do to a person... I'm glad to be at the age that I am now, and at the point in my life that I am, now. I think everyone wants to be younger, but not me. I'd never want to go back and relive my teens and twenties. Too many tears...

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity & Gravitational Pu
Post by Langa on Dec 22^nd, 2004, 8:44am

on 12/22/04 at 08:36:14, Jeepgun wrote:

You're right, Frank. Sometimes I wish life was simpler like when I was younger, but then I think about the crap I went through then as well and quickly realize how blessed I am right here, right now. ;)

Langa