On The Rope

Rappelling:
a first step, then

a horizontal stand,
a leap,
a swing and
a fall,
a collision,
a leap;

repeat.

And all backwards
without looking
to see what is rising
to meet you.

Is it
because you know?

Yes.
It is because
you already know.

How important you feel,
controlling that approach
while not looking to see it,
not directly;  how
divinely inspired the fall
you’re taking.

And at the bottom,
how imploded.
How wasted the journey
since all you can see
is where you were.