Fall

What if the highest destination

Of any given human life

Was not a place that you could reach if

You had to climb

Wasn't up above like heaven

So no need to fly at all

What if to reach the highest place

You had to fall

Fall, like a drunkard on your face

Like a parachuter jumping from a plane

Fall, like an astronaut from space

Or an acrobat from making a mistake

And what if all the sages

Talking about realms out of reach

Would memorize the pages

Of gravity

What if getting to the highest place is

Like learning what you know

Or like going to where you are now

Like coming home

Fall, like Adam falling down

From the strange, unearthly angels whence he came

Fall, finding a way of trusting in the ground

As if the highest and the lowest places

Are the same

What if the highest destination

Wasn't up above at all

What if, to reach the highest place

You had to fall

What if you had to fall