Repel fearlessly

Down the face of the building

You once climbed laboriously

Story by story

Step by step.

Careful not to slip,

Cautious but calculating

Willing to take the risk

All the way up

To a high floor

Just below where they jump from.

Not quite the rooftop-

More a supporting role.

Stay there a while

Soak in the view,

Sip a Barolo or two

Then powder the vault with gold dust

And paper it with poems

And kiss her better

Than she could ever have been kissed

And then start the descent.

Slow, careful at first

Then bounding out & down

Like a spider in mid-fall

Spinning a thread

Connecting it all-

Yes, we were perfect

Our experience

And then a long plateau

High plains lovers

All the way to the end,

Upon which point, she released me.