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Poetry by Rowan Evans

Tag: Terminal Velocity

  • Airborne Confessions: Terminal Velocity – Poetry on Fear, Freedom & Vulnerability

    Rowan Evans

    Author’s Note

    Airborne Confessions: Terminal Velocity leans into image and impulse: a visceral, metaphorical test of feeling. This poem is an exploration of risk and exposed hunger — not a plan, but a probe into the place where shame, expectation, and longing meet.

    Read gently.

    — Rowan Evans

    ✦ Content & Care Advisory ✦

    These words soar through the raw heights of fear, despair, and the fragile pulse of the human heart. They speak of risks taken, gravity felt, and the weight of unseen burdens. Read only if you feel steady, and remember—your safety, your breath, your life are sacred. Even in the fall, you are not alone in the dark.

    Abstract image of a person falling through stormy clouds, representing fear, vulnerability, and emotional release.
    Falling into the raw pulse of fear and freedom—Airborne Confessions: Terminal Velocity.

    Airborne Confessions: Terminal Velocity
    Poetry by Rowan Evans

    I’ve thought about bungee jumping
    without the chord,
    skydiving with no parachute
    on board.
    I want to kiss the earth
    at terminal velocity,
    to feel fear rip me open
    and call it alive.

    Is it you? Is it my family?
    The weight of expectations
    or shame I swallow daily?
    I don’t know.
    I just know I want to fling myself
    off this ledge of everything,
    naked, screaming,
    and see if I survive my own gravity.

    I am trembling. I am exposed.
    I am undone—and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

    For more of my poetry, visit The Library of Ashes.

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