My fortune cookie said
success is getting up
one more time
than you fall down.

Though there are times
when you just don’t want
to get back up.

Especially when facing
a blank page
and a commitment to write.

It sounds a bit
like Sisyphus’ fortune.

It seems to go
hand in hand
with,
“If you don’t fall down,
you’re not trying hard enough.”

And then, there’s learning to fall.
I remember learning to fall
as part of the exercises
for a fight scene
in a play
in college.

Later, a friend with Lou Gerhig’s disease
sang about learning to fall,
and perhaps that sums it all up.
We’re all just learning to fall.