Gravity
I feel like an apple
and you feel like Newton,
watching my fall,
observing gravity,
making calculations on the tide,
and,
at the moment that I, the apple
still falling,
know that my life is over at the end of this last trajectory,
you catch me,
and you hold me,
and you look at me as if I held an answer
to an important question
that still needs to be asked.
Richard Harrison