Falling In Love

falling in love
really is like that
a falling into
the sky

one moment
you walk on solid ground
the next, you fall
just like that!

no stony crevice
to grip with your toes
no branches within reach
to grab hold as you fall

no one asks:
do you want to fall in love now?
is this, like, a good time?
or gives you time to prepare

who could prepare for this
which cannot be planned for
or explained?
the paradox
that is anguish and ecstasy
awakening and oblivion
death and resurrection

you fall
rise and float
in molecules
that, no matter what they are,
are all love
everything
in every direction
bright eyed, smiling
spinning to His music

all your life
you lived it
breathed it
the difference is
now you know

and you know
not knowing is madness
and knowing is a different madness
that’s the truth

though it cannot be told
stay silent
write poems
(no one expects poems to make sense)
keep falling

 
4th june 2011

shahbano aliani