I WILL NOT FALL Put me in a deep sleep Cover me with winter chills Hide me in a cave a while And yet I will not fall. Icy air upon my chest Little room to breathe Time is passing slowly And yet I will not fall. You may bury me from the world to see But I'll know I'll survive Shut off from my body's ways And yet I will not fall. Lock me away from sunlight Only I'm running abroad I will be gone in others' eyes And yet I will not fall. Tape my mouth shut or block my eyes But I'm soaring through adventures like birds All you see is a dark coffin in the ground And yet I will not fall. Hibernation numbs my limbs My soul speeding through the clouds Though I stay on forever you can't see past my grave And yet I will not fall. Written in 1998. Poetry