Dedicated to the memory of an elderly couple who leapt to their deaths from their 18th storey balcony in Etobicoke in October 2013.
In the fall we fell
We fell we fell we fell
We fell
In love
In love
We fell
We took the leap
We leapt
We fell
We fell in love
In love we fell
18 storeys
18 stories
We were 18
When we fell we fell we fell
When we fell
In love
We leapt
We leap
You weep
We took the leap
When we were 18
We were on 18
When we fell
In the fall
We fell
We fell in the fall
In the fall we fell
In love in love
We fell
We fell in love
It was Hallowe’en
We were 18
When we fell in love
In the fall
We fell
We took the leap
We leapt
We fell
We were 80
When we fell
18
80
Eight eight
Teen
Tee
We
We took the leap
At eight in the morning
The start of a day
The start of a life
The end of a day
The end of a life
We took the leap
At eight
Eight
Teen
Tee
We
We
We
We took
The leap
We leapt we leap
We stood
We stand
I took your hand
You took my hand
We on 18
On Hallowe’en
We took the leap
The leap the leap
We fell
We leap
We leapt in the fall
In the fall
We fell
In the fall we fell
In love we fell
18
80
In love we fell
We fell
In the fall
We fell
We fell
We fell
In love we fell
We took the leap and we fell
~ c.p.grisold
© 2014