In a Molecule of Water
for Dion & Romaina

Dion and his girlfriend
Valentine again
still together I see

how many billion flowers
since they met
have dropped their petals

challenged to write
a poem for them
at the drop of a hat
in response to request

must put the whole world in it
must leave not a thing out

must recreate the world
in words, as our Maker did
in six days, in the beginning

when I rest my pen down
poem requested, commissioned
must be finished

petals drop
but the planets orbit
attached to the spheres
they're in

Dion and Romaina, similarly
lovers forever, bonded for life

like oxygen and hydrogen
in a molecule of water


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2010
5:35 a.m. 14.02.10