Beautiful Apparition

When I first saw you, you were standing beautifully in a river of moonlight. You had appeared as if from out of nowhere. Lonesome you seemed in the black of night. But you were different, dressed all in white and I was someone longing for a view - the view of someone who’d be there for me if it chanced to be I needed you, I looked at you as if you were an angel - an otherworldly creature you seemed to be. You glanced at me with eyes that brightly shone. Were you an angel sent to rescue me? Could you dispel the gloom I often felt? Could you lift me higher from my mortal plane? How I longed for someone like an angel to take away from me what was mundane. I looked again and you had disappeared. Had it all been my imagination? Was I going crazy? Had you been only a lovely hallucination? Still I search for you and some redemption when I stand beneath a moon that’s glowing. And how I dream you’ll come again to me with your angelic face so brightly showing! April 5, 2023 for Sotto Poet's Free Submission Poetry Contest