Falling and Faltering

The resounding patter of my feet,

While my legs continued to race,

Echoed through the somber street

To my heart's throbbing pace.

I'm falling once again.

I drove myself past my common strain

Through callous, concret pathways

Which only amplified the flourishing pain

That pulsed through me in always.

I'm faltering once again.

Then there came the descent,

A plunge into my hopelessness,

And all it did was further augement

My glaring pain and loneliness.

I'm falling once again.

My shoulder met with the stony ground,

Giving me a breach in my mindless sprint,

Into a place where I was never to be found,

A place where mirth was but a mere glint.

I'm faltering once again.

I gradualy turn from my aching side

To lay outstretched on the dank pavement,

Then I saw the moon without it's dark side

And it made me question all that it meant.

I don't want to fall once again.

While I was running in the darkness 

I had felt so profoundly anguished

But when I saw the moon's likeness

Its light's caress is all I had ever wished.

I don't want to falter again.

The pain and the sorow felt so far away,

For just in a moment I was transported

With one look at his face from where I lay,

That candecence was all I ever needed.

I will not let myself fall once again.