Falling Out of the World

Dying in a fall, not in a quiet bed: it has been known since childhood.
Tripping on a stairway and breaking neck, or crashing from the sky
in a doomed plane, or even falling off a cliff. Knowing this finality
has led to challenges ridiculous and constant: climbing tall trees
scaling shaky-rock cliffs, bungee jumping, even skydiving.

But glass bottomed floors on tall skyscrapers laugh with
defiance at timidity. The loftiest tree was but mere
invitation; jumping a forty foot cliff simply to dive
into water done without even a dare. Yet having
800 feet of sheer space below on a man-made
structure is too much for this neurotic.

If almighty God makes trees
and rocky cliffs perhaps
it is man who
cannot be
trusted
after
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all
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