By Ali
Date: 8 December 2000
Still Here
The end is past
Yet I begin anew
Remaining here
Yet moving on
Strangely knowing
Yet full of question
Remind me again
Tell me what I'm doing
Here
This place
Of all places
Standing on this cloud
Looking down
Jump or stay?
Or maybe I'll fall
Fall again
Fall from grace
Of which I've known
So very little
For very often
I dwell where
I should not
Going places
That are restricted
But what's a little
Danger, now and then?
I need a little peril
Just to remind me
That I'm here
That I'm still alive
When you can barely
Breath
And hardly speak
Then you know
The time is right
So, standing here
My breath catches
In my throat
And I know that
I can hardly move
Forget speaking
The time is right
So, I'm at a place
I shouldn't be
In a position
I shouldn't be
Realizing this
I do not turn
And run
I just ring your doorbell
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