Abyss

That moment when you look at me and me at you
and my soul begins to fall
out of my body
faster and faster
through the earth
into an abyss

and it keeps falling
infinitely and endlessly
through that abyss
dark and empty and nothing
and yet it is also
bright and loving and everything
a paradox maybe
but so is the idea
of an uncaring universe

and my soul trusts in that infinity
even though many times before
it has hit an unseen floor
and shattered
and what was thought to be infinite
turned out to be human

and as you look away for a second
my soul climbs out of the abyss
places itself back in my body
back in my human brain
and we go back to eating lunch