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Fear of Heights

He plunged into a concrete sea
From his perch atop the tower.
Little sad and lonely me
Admired his courage and his power.

As the man approached the ground,
I could not see his ivory wings.
Death arrived and wrapped around
and rescued him. To death he clings

As life raced up toward the sky
To catch the man and death before
They got to heaven. Fast and high
they flew up to a golden door.

Death won within a second flat,
and life had tried so very hard.
Death stepped over the welcome mat,
And gave the man up to a guard.

The guard had said "no entry here!"
And death's victim began to cry.
"I couldn't take life! Am I clear?"
Guard said, "It's not your time to die."

© 2014 Nicholas Emeigh

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Notes: This poem was written on Sunday, April 27, 2014.  It's about life and death.  Each has its time.

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          • Airborne
          • All About Me
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          • An Ant's Heartbeat
          • Angry, Angrier, Angriest
          • Antiquated
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          • Autumn Leaves
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          • Baggage
          • Bar Lighting
          • Behold This Love I've Laid to Rest
          • Benevolent God, A
          • Birth of a Generation
          • Blowing Smoke
          • Blue Balloon
          • Bohemians
          • Breakfast
          • Burn
          • Busy Museum
        • C >
          • Calico Waves
          • Carried
          • Caulk
          • Chapbook
          • Cocoon
          • Cold
          • Contortionist, The
          • Conundrum
          • Courage In Faith
          • Cowboys and Kings
        • D-E >
          • Daytime Nightmares
          • Doe
          • Don't Tell
          • Down Deep
          • Dreamer, The
          • Dreams Of A Real Life
          • Easter '94-'14
          • Easy Street Wasn't Paved
          • End of the World, The
          • Ever-Autumn Town
          • Everyone
        • F-G >
          • Family
          • Fear of Heights
          • First Fall Harvest
          • Footprints
          • Forecasting
          • Fragile
          • Friends
          • Fucked
          • Funeral For Me and You, A
          • Grandparents Day
          • Grounding Exercise
          • Growing Up
        • H-J >
          • Haiku on Working
          • Half The Man
          • Heaven
          • High Wire Walker
          • Him
          • Homestead
          • I Am Cold Turkey
          • If
          • Imaginary Friends
          • Instant Safety: Add Water & Stir
          • Interview
          • Iridescence
          • I Still Dream of You
          • It's A Funny Thing Being Lonely
          • Just Answering a Question
        • K-M >
          • The Key
          • King of Marigolds
          • Lost Souls
          • Love As Such
          • Love Song
          • Lube
          • Machine Dreams
          • A Makeshift Prayer
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          • Masks
          • Maybe Account, The
          • May Twenty Third
          • Money
          • Mother's Day
          • Muse
          • Musing on a Hunt
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          • Party People
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          • Personal Wealth
          • Philadelphia
          • Pity Party
          • Plan, A
          • Please Leave the Memories
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          • Present Company Excluded
          • Pride It Was And Dignity
          • Puppy Love
          • Quack
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          • Rated "R"
          • Real Pitfalls
          • Reconciliation
          • Respect For Elders
          • Résumé
          • Resurrection
          • Return To Light From Darkness
          • Risk
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          • Sex, Fast.
          • Shell
          • She Doesn't Hold a Candle
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          • Still Life With Butter Dish
          • Studio System
          • Sup
          • The Surgeon
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          • Thank God, It Was Only A Dream
          • These Voices
          • They
          • They Say I'm Crazy
          • This Doesn't Rhyme
          • A Time Before Dying
          • Toxic Friends
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          • Unearthly
          • Untitled
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          • Utopian Melodrama
        • V-Z >
          • Verse For A Death Chamber
          • Volley
          • War
          • Warming Up To Change
          • Weathered Hands
          • We the Depressed
          • What It's Like to Look at Me
          • What Would You Have Done With Me?
          • Who Can Say?
          • You, Me, and He
          • The Young Narcissists
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