04-16-2016, 07:32 PM
So far I fell
By sheer luck, I made your acquaintance
at a conference I didn't care about,
attending to network, find someone out
to steer my hand through the corporate pell mell.
I was sheltering from the rain
under an awning in a cigarette strewn lane
when you walked by,
whirlwind of my autumn sky,
seeing you, I fell
into Canto V, the cries of cranes,
tossed by the wind
from wall to wall, my voice thinned,
while thoughts, like birds, flew endlessly through
the labyrinth. I shouted, 'Beatrice!' but you
were far away, beyond the mountain guarded by beasts, beyond
the farthest circle of despond, and I
no wayfarer guided by Virgil, but lost in the darkness of hell.
So far I fell.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe

