#GIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[meistoshi]

they told you not to look down

you never had vertigos, but now, now you're on top of the world. everyone's under you. no more worries. no more problems. you're at the top, and it's great. you can help everyone from here. it's great.

the sun is scorching hot. the nights are the coldest. a gust of wind, you'd go down, down, down. an infinite fall.

but it's okay. because everyone will come to save you now if you fell, right?

. . . right . . . ?

the fall itself's not the thing that scares him, never has been. it's always what gets left above. if there's nothing above, if everything is down, down, down ...

oh, he could learn to embrace it.

oh, he could learn to love the fall.

oh, he could learn to crave it.

because it means there's another climb to be made. the pinnacle is breathtaking, it's everything he wants, has wanted, could ever want. but having it is only half as satisfactory as those last grueling steps to the top, no matter the prize.

the apotheosis is almost sobering.

everyone always told him he needs to slow down. now there's nowhere to go. so he's stopped. it's great.

there's a long way down. there's nowhere to go. there's only one way to go.

a nation has watched him purposefully leap off a very literal tower, in a fit of heroics, in a trajectory towards a very literal ground of, what was it, concrete ?? asphalt ?? he was caught then. a gust of wind, he'll be caught again. he's been caught at lower heights. someone's always caught him. if he doesn't fight the momentum of this infinite fall, he'll be caught again.

what's the harm in not watching his step, here, at the apex of everything ?? he made it here once.

& oh, he loves it here.

but the climb was heady, & the detox from it makes him ever - so easy ... to ... just ...

[bentancurs-bitch]

GIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO