sometimes we fall for no good reason at all

i drafted this blog several weeks ago and left myself only the title 'sometimes we fall for no good reason at all' as a clue to what i was thinking. ...and so i will expound on the topic though i'm not sure what my original intent was.

"i'm human, are you?" ***

do you ever trip on a crack in the sidewalk

and look over your shoulder to check that no one saw?

i've noticed that no one recovers seamlessly;

i bet you readjusted your shirt or brushed the tip of your nose

as a cover-up

which is lame, but we all do silly things

in reaction to the shame we feel

for making a mistake, for not being perfect. ***

but whoever said we had to be perfect?

the virgin in love sleeps with another man

and in so doing realizes she really is in love

but they're broken now

sometimes we fall and we fall hard. ***

and sometimes our past has handicapped us

and circumstance demands more than we have to offer

we've done all we can but fail

and push from self-deprecation to despair

sometimes we fall but the real injury we do to ourselves. ***

and do you ever trip

and realize there was no crack to begin with?

it was a simple misfiring of your neurons

and as deterministic as it sounds, it was beyond your control

sometimes we fall for no good reason at all.