one for joy, one for pride

Your gefunked gaiety is perverting my last nerve
and it must yield, he said through a muffled space mask.

You work too hard for all your pay
somedays you     need just playyyy
    IIII.. feeeel like... flyyyyyi yunng
the other sang through his comlink,
dancing around gayly from within his heavy suit

Something like this requires your full and undivided attention
         to every last detail
Where are your 'ead at right now... he paused.
          Its just purely selfish not to do the work you were assigned

his tone was cooled, it struck against a polarized UV faceshield,
reverberated through his mic

The whole project's gone defunct anyway.... he trailed off,
clunked steps fell heavily against the ground,
he was off, off      and away

By now you know you are acting like a damned fool.
Now stop jollywhakerin' yourself all around,
you're going fall into one of  these pits...
He only heard soft inflections and a little humming
he looked over and his partner was leaning backwards

I just want to be pulled up into the sky,
he said briskly stumbling backwards
chest exposed, his arms draped wide

By now he had dropped his blowtorch and welding element
it fell upright and it showered sparks across an obelisk surface
he lunged towards his partner, thinking
that gas has made him mad, poor lad
I don't believe I'll manage it

A moment came when he couldn't get another step
it wouldn't fit underneath him.

                                                                                               When your body is trying to fall
                                                                                                and you won't let it,
                                                                                                the moment when it is allowed,
                                                                                         the gravity floats away from beneath you
                                                                                              you reach a state of weightlessness

                                                                   it is said to be euphoric
The massive sun that burned
deeply orange, so near to this marblous planet -
it bore through his faceshield
he felt the rays on his face, and he smiled

All he heard was one breath
one deep, satisfying inhalation that whispered through his comlink

and then he was gone
       saw him fall straight out of sight
Damn near should've caught that one,
the bloody chaps they send me out 'ere

The moment he felt his legs fall out from beneath him
felt space suspend him,
   seemed as if it would never end
      the warmth on his face caressed his cheeks

light filled up his mask
            so he closed his eyes
He lay on a bed of clear vacummous space
                                                                 and his suit
deeply saged lithium illuminated brilliantly above him in the gama light
       as he fell for thousands of meters
down the magnificently gargantuent support shaft
       it fell deep into the landscape
his suit diminished into the indistinguishable
      the suit fell motionlessly into the darkness

He stood at the top watching him fall

He looked up towards the coral orange sky
      the spectrumful light spun and danced before across his face

A tear came to his eye
                                   one for joy
                                                     one for pride



The above piece is a word painting and therefore uses language that is not, in the English tradtion , "proper" usage.