"Fly"

a poem

Photo from Pixaby, Source Pexels

To fly is to 

float 

untethered by gravity 

yet if I turned 

the world upside 

down I’d be 

falling 

although I’d reach 

space

where I would 

be… 

floating 

and if I 

get high 

will I fly

or will I 

float 

if the trip 

is bad then

I will fall 

but in water

I float 

and 

fall 

with gravity pulling 

me under 

but it is 

fluid enough down

there to feel like 

flying 

on the trampoline 

I float 

and fly 

at the same

time 

but then 

fall 

or am I 

floating

flying 

falling 

simultaneously 

are your fingers 

floating 

these words

or are they 

falling 

or are they 

flying

because the motions 

are different 

yet the same 

and even if 

that’s not true 

then the result 

is unison 



or is it?