To Have Seen Beauty
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How precious the moment ,
to know you're alive
To feel each breath, without care
Seeing each footprint you've left,
before it vanishes
To find beauty, before it fades
Like vaporous thoughts, leaving a fragment,
a memory, clouded by desire or need
To know innocence and how delicate and short life is
To travel beyond vision and dream
The changing hues, in a round sky, its vastness,
forming a collage over the surface of my mind
finding you're part of the design,
Without malice watching the sea rise and fall,
giving a sense of time
plucking a flower to inhale its sweet scent
Why do I dwell on such things?
How is it I care not for glittering jewels,
seek not the room's center
Rather to leave crowded spaces and freely breathe
To inhale the Earth with vision and scent
To grasp a moment in life,
while butterflies lay in air on wing
over each stem fraught with color
and dream of wondrous things
To know I was here,
and saw only beauty
4/23/14
Copyright © Frederic Parker | Year Posted 2014
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