Pantoum

His heart is like Sierra Leone: Ample and overt

Eyes shine like clean cut diamonds, lying in the dirt

And I cannot begin to convey what each eye portrays

Because I get lost, completely, with each and every gaze

Eyes shine like clean cut diamonds, lying in the dirt

While the world spins surrounding me, I’m totally inert

Because I get lost, completely, within each and every gaze

At the brightness in his smile, like the suns strongest rays

While the world spins surrounding me, I’m totally inert

Capturing these moments through the shutters of my eyes

At the brightness of his smile, like the suns strongest rays

A mind so free and endless, like the stars in the skies

Capturing these moments through the shutters of my eyes

And all I can picture through this frame:

A mind so free and endless, like the stars cluttering the skies

But I’m just a photographer, and one who cannot aim.