Too Close To The Edge
By: Jehangir Saleh
Written: August 30, 2004

she almost fell
but held her insteadd

her edge like every edge
breaking love, liver cancer
burnt cookies
pick one, it doesn’t matter

we are too close
to every edge
everywhere
but
somehow
decide to hang on

—-

at night
i see colours
deeper in the darkness
toward black
and then the colours emerge
from underneath

too close to falling
into the deep dark silence
a twisted freedom
but we all know
it isn’t really
free