M (for MISTAKEN)

M (for MISTAKEN)

one of us
be destined to
pop first

skin getting thin thin thin
under oxygen helium
pressure
    way to go
at last birthday

or
aiming for the Heavens
aspiring
    for it all
golden ring atop
that pole

start to channel
the music of the spheres
as giddy we stretch
to embrace
the stratosphere

but here again
     skin to thin and
little big bang
be our evaporation

Oh I saw that film
the red balloon

cried like a child
because I was one

caught betwixt and between
a life that has been loneliness

a death that is nothing
nothingness
            unless
I am totally mistaken