Falling Into Love

and I learned to walk
on tip-toes
on that thin white
frozen wall
holding the heavens
and the earth;
I couldn't dance,
I couldn't skip,
I couldn't glide
or jump up high,
and so I kept away
from the places where
the sleeping wall
was most thin,
too scared to fall
into the waters of love,
that would drown me
and help me bring
the heavens to the earth.