Lilly McGown’s Fall

The strangest thing happened

to Lilly McGown.

Her toe caught a crack

but she didn’t fall down.

She bumbled and stumbled

in front of a truck,

and Lilly found

herself falling up!

The crack wasn’t new

she’d seen it before,

it had stubbed a toe

and had caught the door.

’Lil had the means,

it could have been filled,

“but it was only a crack,

who had it killed?”

Poor Lilly expected

to crack her crown,

as always before when

falling down,

she’d split her lip

or blacked an eye

but this time Lilly

fell towards the sky!

She fell and she fell

forever it seemed,

she fell past birds

on feathery wings.

She fell past kites

and clouds and things.

’Lil Lil’ fell upward

as if pulled by a string.

Poor Lilly fell high

to the edge of black,

to that clearly drawn line

where you cannot come back.

She kicked and she waved

but she never could stop

this falling that fell

her right over the top.

Poor Lilly is gone

From her upward spill.

She tripped into Heaven

against her will,

so fill your cracks

and tamp them down

so you never trip up

like Lilly McGown.

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