A ballerina twirls a hundred stories up
It's my little sister and she's waving at us
Tiptoeing the rooftop gleefully teasing gravity
Her schoolmates sit Indian-style behind a chain-link fence
Grimy smudges on their faces, eating peanut butter and jelly
Unbeknownst to the peril she pirouettes past the gargoyles
How do you prepare for a nightmare this horrible?
My family is delirious
The confusion is intense
A field trip to a skyscraper construction site doesn't make any sense
A deadly accident is eminent fooling around like that
We were convincing the sky through clouds of cement
Where's the teacher, chaperone, or foreman in charge?
How in the hell did she get up that far?
Big brother is the only one capable of Superman heroics
My mother urges me, but I can't fly to save her
I'd run out of time if I hot-wired the elevator
There was a close up headshot of my sister
As a prophetic silence of something wicked drew near
Swirling winds tangling her hair
The gut-wrenching shocked expression of baby-faced fear
She performed one last routine catching her shoelace on a protruding steel beam
Then that dreaded moment arrived
All I could do was cup my hands and cry
She evaporated in between my fingers and the rapid movements of my eye
Plummeting onto an invisible cushion as the earth opened wide
Big brother was not a superhero
Merely a life-saving dreamer with an outstretched pillow
Frightened and frozen I awoke pondering the fragile nature of our mortality
Numbered are the days in which we live our lives peacefully
Despite the uneasiness I was all the more curious
I couldn't stop imagining the unimaginable fright
The organ-bursting, heart-stopping free-fall and what certain death feels like
Before this bad dream I had never been so scared
What is the meaning of my skyscraper nightmare?
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