Is there two sustainable pictures with parallel thoughts here?
Gravity Happens
The bottle flew in an arc,
rolled on its axis, evened out by yaw.
At the apex, sunlight in the residue
glistened in silence.
The flight, smooth as lifting fog,
seemed endless. Gravity happens.
The moment of truth. The crashed.
The sun-shattered halo.
He walked up the steps, knocked, stepped in,
picked up the last bag. Tears blurred his eyes,
welled on his cheek, rolled toward the lump
that was rock hard in his throat.
Gravity Happens
The bottle flew in an arc,
rolled on its axis, evened out by yaw.
At the apex, sunlight in the residue
glistened in silence.
The flight, smooth as lifting fog,
seemed endless. Gravity happens.
The moment of truth. The crashed.
The sun-shattered halo.
He walked up the steps, knocked, stepped in,
picked up the last bag. Tears blurred his eyes,
welled on his cheek, rolled toward the lump
that was rock hard in his throat.