Rio de Janeiro

In life, I fear the water

They call it

Thalassophobia

Because we name all things and they become real

Like the beings below

Schrödinger's Squid

But

It is in your dreams

I pull you to the surface

In life, you fear heights

Acrophobia

As if we needed a name for that

It is not the creatures below, rather

The space in between and

The ground

So permanent and unyielding

It is in my dreams

You leap from the cliff,

Forcing me to fly

I'm scared

I hear it come from me

Though my heart has never feared the empty space

Though I seek the tallest buildings, the tallest mountains

To gaze from

The top

Such a wonderful place

Such a wonderful thing to feel

Small

In life

Though in my dreams I am safer to fall

Farther, Harder

Than anything redeemable

In life

In my dreams

I'm scared

Of the long way down

The wings above inspire no confidence

More than the wings of slumber

The wings found in life too,

Few ever wear

Though many dream of doing so

Pink, red, orange

Yellow

Green, blue, purple

Surely they cannot

Will not

Hold me up

Surely I cannot be saved

Surely

The wind will not carry me

It will be okay

I hear you say

Okay

Then you jump

In my dream

Where you do not fear heights

And I am held

I am carried

And we fly