Helpless

inspired by watching Wings of Desire

Watching a child

Walk obliviously toward a

Speeding car?

 

Seeing your grandfather

Clutch his chest,

Crumpling to dust?

 

Dreaming

The unfathomable, but

Eliciting a silent scream?

 

Angel Damiel

Anxiously circling beneath

Marion’s trapeze?

 

Detective Scottie

Vertiginously cowering above

Madeleine’s fall?

 

Why does the cinema captivate?

 

Are we all dreamers?

B&W angels desirous of

Falling into color?