the fall

i fell for you like a shooting star like a tumble weed like a waterfall. i fell for you like columbia like evel knievel in hell’s canyon. i fell for you like an olympic high diver who stumbles and scores 0 or a sky diver who forgets to open his chute because he’s so distracted by your smile. i fell for you like a carton of eggs falls in the suddenly utter silence of the grocery store like a tray of dishes in a five star restaurant. i fell for you like i fall into a hot spring in winter or a cool pool on a hidden stream on a summer day, like a lake falls for a mountain like a lark for a meadow like a sparrow for the springtime like tears fall at a funeral or a wedding. i fell for you like everything falls. i fell for you like nothing in this whole world had ever fallen before.

(KZ 2016)