I fell in love with her all at once
i had been slipping
down cliff by cliff by cliff,
I fell for her heart,
the way it beamed generously
for others,
i fell in love with her eyes,
how they read us all as if
we were books,
i fell in love with her smile,
how those dimples stood out when she couldn’t
contain the laughter any longer,
i fell in love with her quirks,
how she was feisty
and feminine,
mysterious enough to frustrate me
yet so sincere
that my heart would break whenever i felt anger
about her walls.
I fell for all of you,
every single piece,
your beauty and your flaws and
every little detail in between,
I fell in love with her brain,
how she was intelligent
and calculating,
perceptive of everything in the room
yet always the most focused and gentle,
I fell in love with her art,
oh how she drew,
it was as if her drawings were a puzzle piece
to me and the world we share,
I fell in love with her music,
how her notes
were so sweet and airy
concave and smooth,
the most meaningful i ever heard,
I fell in love with her words,
how she strung them together into poetry,
into music,
into nature,
how every syllable she concocted with that timid voice
rang out as if it were a calling to truth.