Lovers Leap (Poetry)

Published in Word Craft Issue 30 Winter 1988

She fell for him.
He fell for her.
They had a lover’s tiff.
Who was to blame we’ll never know —
They both fell from this cliff.

She broke her neck.
He broke her fall.
But it was hard to tell
from signs of struggle on the edge —
who pushed and who just fell.

Did she push him?
Or he push her?
Perhaps they had a pact,
each to take the other’s life —
Mere theory or a fact?

She died for him.
He died for her.
So there is none to weep.
They share this same unhallowed ground,
and watch each other sleep.