Upon a roof, <br />A potential leaper, <br />Held by the hand of his savior <br />In a fingerlock hold on humanity. <br />One dangles from the brickface, <br />The other hangs over the ledge. <br />Both facing the enmity of danger. <br />Locked in each other’s lives, <br />One prays for death, <br />The other holds on for life. <br /> <br />Both are one in the same, <br />Gemini, the signs of the twins; <br />Is one person of a dual nature <br />whose planet, the volatile Mercury <br />burns in both desires to live and die <br />Both hang and help. <br />And the one that is dropped <br />Is the one that was holding. <br />Leaving the one hoping to die, <br />Left alive, to cope with the meaning to this treason.<br /><br />John Tansey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/letting-go-to-be-or-not-to-be/
