Cliffhanger

You’d like to know what happens,
Except that you’re what happens.
No one tells a cliffhanger

While they’re hanging from a cliff
Without any author’s tricks
In mind for saving themselves.

It’s harder to be sanguine
About a past that matches
Too many pasts that went splat

Moments past where this one’s at.
Do you really want to know?
Most people caught in a trap

That’s closing get obsessive
Less with planning than regret
And daydreams. You may fly yet.