“ What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”-
Milan Kundera
Vertigo is fear of desire to fall
in wild abandon of everything held sacred
from an acquired stature restrictively tall.
How steely should be courage for losing it all
on the path to freedom that's thorny and crooked?
Vertigo is fear of desire to fall.
Denied of simplicity that dispels the pall
cast by facades o'er the soul cause want to be rid
of an acquired stature restrictively tall.
Yet indignity of having to creep and crawl
in lowly disgrace can only inspire dread.
Vertigo is fear of desire to fall.
What mysterious power compels to heed the call
which promises escape from that prison like stead,
from an acquired stature restrictively tall?
Whether or not to plunge, seeking moment's enthrall
as joy can evaporate to sorrow instead.
Vertigo is fear of desire to fall
from an acquired stature restrictively tall.
