Pull

pull

gravity, they say, is

the power that intuits the

growth of all things green,

the power that brings

my skin, my bones

to a place of quiet rest

gravity is a lesson

to be learned;

the moment when

one realizes that

omnipotent forces exist

waiting to be met

my son with his

splintered bones

like old wood,

has come to know

the meaning behind

this lesson

has lost the notions

that flight is possible

and that the ground

is soft and yielding

like my lap

this metamorphosis

is more that osteocytes

meeting and re-connecting

his world has shifted - physics 101

to take from him

this moment

would be liberating for me

yet he has chosen to

meet the world

hands down