Falling is something that you can't do on purpose.

By definition

it has to be an accident,

otherwise it's a jump or a push.

Sure, you can make yourself fall but it's never quite as impressive,

never a head first,full body,loose change

rolling out of your pockets

sprawl across the ground that makes people

stare and stiffle giggles or laugh out loud at

your expense.

Unless you're a good actor.

In which case you never really fell

anyway,you just pretended to.

Falling into a hole in the ground

for instance

is not something that you would do

on purpose.

It happens while you're looking the other way.Very

rarely would you get a pleasant surprise.

It might be warm and comfortable

peaceful and cosy

holding you into the earth,making you a

part of it,keeping you

safe and protected.

Until it rains and the ground begins to

give way and then you're in real

trouble and the bottom of your warm pit

falls from beneath you and you find yourself in

a deeper hole than before only now you have to

scratch and dig and crawl your way

out of it,up past the warm happiness, now mingled

with mud and wet and cold until eventually you find yourself sitting on the

cold hard surface

staring into the darkness, trying to

remember how it was before the rain, how the

world felt when it was

warm, or at least how it was before you

fell.

You're doomed to forever walk around

eyes open, trying

trying to fall

trying to make the earth absorb you

again, just once more and maybe

this time

it won't rain.

But falling is something that you

can't do on purpose, even if you

close your eyes and run along a

pot-hole filled road.

It has to be a happy

accident, in a dry place,a

face first,full body

sprawl.

By definition,

Falling

is something that you

can't do

on purpose.