Tipped Over

overbalanced is the optimal position
efficient use, unsuperfluous regurgitation
but there wasn't any to spare
so your syllables will fail
to spur the moment to pick
itself up off the shattered ground
because it's in one piece but
it's among so many shards
to make even tip toes break
ensuring that all you can do
is wish you hadn't
wish it didn't
and wonder
what might have been
without that decisive gravitational moment