A fine poem. The narrator has confidence in his interpretation of his life.
"So what if I fall?
My place is with the fallen
One can not defy gravity long"

Giving the narrator dialog with himself emphasizes his conflict with the world, like Frederic Henry at the end of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The high wire emblem reminds me of an article I read recently about a French high wire performer who strung a wire between the towers of the World Trade Center, right before it opened in the 1980s. He had helpers who posed as construction workers and ran the wire at night. The performer walked along the wire for several hours with a hundred thousand spectators watching. When he stepped off onto the roof of one tower, was arrested for trespassing, and faced the court, the judge sentenced him to perform again in Central Park.