Were the men enthralled by physics? <br />Or lost in philosophy? <br />To be perfectly fair, <br />I can’t say I cared, <br />As I fell so inelegantly. <br /> <br />Did I mishear their offer? <br />Were they taking liberties? <br />With language and representation <br />Did they even say they’d catch me? <br /> <br />Delighting in a sporting game <br />Or mockery? <br />Was I the butt of an office joke <br />Frivolity? <br /> <br />Hospitalised I had to bloody smile, <br />Gripping a circumference or two of steel. <br />Jesus walked on water, <br />But it’s kind of different, <br />A little bit embarrassing, <br />Not that suave or holy, <br />Walking on wheels. <br /> <br />And the men look apologetic <br />But I kind of enjoy their transparency. <br />Grapes and an hourly chauffeur to the bog <br />And most vexingly ‘Man, we’re sorry’. <br /> <br />Newton was darned jubilant, <br />With his notebook, intellect, necktie, <br />HB, correlation, apt choice of guinea pig, <br />Evasion of court case, <br />Advancement in Science. <br /> <br />Descartes made no conclusion of course. <br />Said it might not be disability, <br />But emotion, stratified. <br />Love in a peculiar light. <br />The meaning of life. <br />Funnily enough his falsification failed to fix my fractured spine. <br /> <br />Play your trust games on an acrobat, <br />He can dive to the left in time. <br />And the meaning of trust isn’t really a must, Descartes, <br />When im falling through the air, <br />Into hands that aren’t there, <br />As Newton stands five feet away with a stop watch.<br /><br />Alice Gormley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/after-three-relax-and-fall-back-trust-us-we-ll-catch-you/
