at the top of this freefall   caught a glimpse of something   catch me in cat's cradle   and rock me back to sleep         photographs make us laugh   but you can't hide your tears   i'll fall behind and try to find   some sense in all this noise   wait for me there         turned to salt, no feeling   frozen while looking back   hide and seek, close my eyes   count to ten and open         underneath tongue and teeth   are nothing more than words   tangled in the brush again   you go on ahead   and wait for me there         looking through my fingers in the dark   blinded by the sunshine and you're gone   (crawling backwards through the haze   finding everything you feared   stained glass monuments of doubt)         how's the air up there?   are you breathing?   in   then   out