To Bex & Lyle Smith

Falling feeling

I came to our first meeting

with a falling feeling,

feeling of falling and fleeing.

Meeting you deeply on the way

down you said, “I don’t want to say

I’m falling in love with you.”

I said, “Oh do, please, do do do.”

So you said it - oh you said it -

so deeply and it sounded true:

“I’m falling in love with you.”

I came to our first true meeting

with a deeply falling feeling,

but I think you just caught me

reeling. You just reeled me in.

Finuala Dowling
Sydafrikansk poet