Syllables Marbles
for Toni Styles

I am unable to recall
the moment separating
knowing you and not knowing you

the moment you crossed into
or did you leap into

the skipping rope of my beating heart

solution of my life
changed forever then

the composition of my blood altered

your big eyes and your small breasts
feasting and to feast on

fixing your hair, falling across your face,
with a finger

model retired at 23
whether or not on top of the world
whether or not on the cover of magazines

on my mind, always will be
since we, like water, fell over waterfalls

into one tributary to flow together
out to sea, to salt, to season creation
a different way


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
1 p.m. 27.04.08