Something Fell

Something fell from the sky, how it had got up there I have no idea - not to imply there must have been anything much mysterious about its being up there. Perhaps it had been propelled from below- admittedly unlikely- or fallen from above - also unlikely, but it had to be something and, mysterious or not, there it was falling. And so anyway, as said falling, and, inevitably, the closer it got to the earth on its earth bound journey, the more rapidly it approached its own earth-bound shadow. Perhaps if there was no sun shining there would be no inevitably here regarding the violent meeting of it and its shadow, but there was a shining sun, and so light and a shadow and also gravity, and so inevitably it was.