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| Tragic Skydive 2003 | |
| By mr_soul | ||
| 10 March 2008 | ||
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Probably the first "poem" I ever wrote. It was summer 2006 and I had watched a programme about the mysterious death of a skydiver. I remembered hearing the story on the news three years earlier, it was a big story at the time. It was soon overshadowed, probably understandibly, by the death of Dr David Kelly which occurred just a short while after I think. The skydiver fell to his death, his parachute had been sabotaged. Police never found anyone for this and were unsure whether it was murder or suicide. To my knowledge, this mystery remains unsolved to this day. Anyway these words just came to me. It may be very amateurish I know, as a lot of my work is, but I'm still very attached to this poem because it was the first I ever wrote. Three years have gone Since you took your last dive Twelve seasons have passed Since you were last here alive As you plunged from the plane Experiencing that thrill Did you know there and then You were about to get killed? Were you surprised like the rest As you fell through the air? Or think it for best Because you no longer cared? Who severed the ties That made the chute fail to budge? Without a wave goodbye Was it some long-ago grudge? Or a surge of jealousy The way you flew from the plane Some cruel twisted heresy By someone gone insane? Your girlfriend, she’d bailed She was already away Exams you had failed Debts you had to pay Perhaps they pledged To add up to make strife Did it push you over the edge And make you take your own life? So many questions And not an answer in sight Who knows what is wrong And who knows what is right? Defying their laws You fell away from Earth too And no matter the cause It was your faith that saved you So let us not dwell on that sorrowful day And the ultimate price that you had to pay By a clever but cruel, devious man Or still more tragic, your own struggle-free hand Either way it is society to blame It was it that threw you to death from that plane But far from the place of a tragic skydive You're born again, still very much alive
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