Mind Slide

I was falling

slickly

down the darkened expanse

compactly

smoothly

the way water

would run down

walls of cold,

sand-colored marble

The descent

is not high speed

but swift

like a crisp brown leaf

approaching

a merciful

but hustling rapid

I have no power

no command

of this downward drop

I slide

I am frightened

unglued

overwrought

as I drop

I look up

and see remaining light

in it's inevitable abandon

it fades

in ways like the stages

of the dimming sunset

but with a tauntingly

trepidacious

rapidity

All I see is darkness

and shadows of souls

I have known

and disappointed

occasionally

as I plunge

I pass mirrors

strategically placed

that show all the faces

the versions

of me

that

I want the darkness

to swallow

and destroy

In all the slippery turmoil

among the splashes

of red drop regret

and waves

of cold blue repulsion

with the invisibility

of light

I find

that not once

did I ever

or will I ever

look down