Parachute - Caroline Polachek

Awake from a dream

One that started as a nightmare

Like a war so extreme

It erased itself from memory

Here’s where I jumped

From the aeroplane without questioning it

The curve of the coast of Los Angeles

Spreading itself below

And blooming overhead, the parachute

I’ve got to trust it now, oh

Change in the wind

And I’m drifting from the crescent

Pulled farther out

From the shore than where I can swim to it

And blooming overhead, the parachute

I’ve got to trust it now, oh

Closing in on the sparkle of the waves

Go on, take me, it will feel like going home

Go on, take me, I’m not afraid to drown

What is this, pulling me back the other way

To strip malls, highways and treetops?

Landing on the soft ground