Who Dares to Catch the Falling Knife
Who dares to catch the falling knife
Sleight of hand, lapse of life
Chance to sink, perhaps to fly
Open wounds of days gone by
Sense the lift of taking flight
Warming thought and coming light
Number steps with no depart
Finish now before you start
Resist the reach, the past has passed
World has filled with shadows cast
Focus on the glinting steel
Not the sharpness that you feel
Memories haunt of anger gone
Different road that now you’re on
The falling knife a constant test
Subtle dreams, hammered chest
Breaking point with rust and dull
Memories within your skull
Always there but lost to sight
Banished day yet find the night
Slip in your dreams
Or what it seems
Moments when you had no fight
Stinging pain, acrid bite
Sharpened words
Pointed heard
Escape, no chance
Assumed the trance
When tempest passed a tepid calm
Forgo the times of begging alms
Deep inside the capture held
Fetid dark eternal cell
The falling knife a widened stance
Waving sharp on every chance
Terror tricks to bind your hands
Weakened knees refuse to stand
The final cut that drives the fear
Chained your soul to staying here
Choosing comes without a sound
Climbing up to higher ground
Passing through the trapping sand
Silence waits the knife to land
Echo of the final cut
Closing words, the story shut
Gathered all to grab the blade
Looking front, the choice is made
The choice is life
Without the fright
An open door
This box no more
Finally now you’re in control
Finally now, feeling whole
Additional Reading
R.J. Schwartz is an American Poet and Author.
His complete works on The Creative Exiles Website can be found here
The Gypsy Thread is a huge collection of his original work
Ralph also writes on HubPages
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