poem Falling From the Sky, a poem written hours before Janet Kuypers jumped out of an airplane, about the tension you feel when doing something out of the ordinary, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Falling From the Sky
Janet Kuypers, 06/16/07 (11:27 A.M. mountain time)
I’m taking a one-way flight today
And you know, when people say they have a one-way ticket
You assume the plane
is landing them somewhere
And not flying them back
But lucky me, my only way back
Is to jump out of the sky
And hope I land on my own two feet
And my flight takes off
In just a little while
And I can feel that tension knot
That knot’s rope, being pulled
By all my nerves
And like it was heartburn
I want to slam my fist into my chest
To try to make the pain go away
So I’ve spent all my life
Trying to soar so high
But I guess I have to be prepared
For coming back to earth

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