fleeting moments

Fleeting moments

of awareness

breathing life and touching another

A bird's flight,

A bee's song,

The howl of the wind.

A sunny breeze

carries the leaf

down down down

in swirls and jumps

free-falling to the ground

in brief journey's weightlessness

and far-reaching sight in spectacular color.

Carried on wings

Stabbing destiny

in this short interlude

eluding the void of forgotten boundaries,

harsh against

this instant

of sight

of life

of touch

of light

Before all changes yet again

Colliding with unknowable

on just one breath.

 

(c) 2017Iris B. Struller