In the Span of a Moment
In the span of a moment
A word of caution
Destiny alters
Those fragile components
In a moment a seed
Comes forth to fruition
Or it dies with no one to grieve
No pause nor slight intermission
In the span of a moment
Fate awakens
Mysteries that seemed unimportant
Ones that had rested perfectly dormant
In the grand scheme of life
Those moments seem trivial
A roll of the dice
But they are really indivisible
For the human condition
Is fragile at best
On guard to vague contradiction
In the constant it heeds it's rest
In a moment you can catch
The gleam of an eye
A flash of anger subdued
Or a clarity replaced by confused
The tiniest speck of time
To a life interrupted
Forever can find
A heart too corrupted
To trust in another
Or even ones self
Much more when those moments
Cluster and swell
In an instant your eyes
Can behold perfection
In the passing of time
Reveals a cruel deception
Moment by moment
We fall or we stand
Trying to control every component
Its like holding sand castles with only your hands
Yesterday everything seemed perfectly right
Today my love, he went away
Like ocean waves when tides crest high
The mornings new landscape gives way
I cry with every forsaken moment
The moments by my side he's not here
I've already endured the many moments
All those that turned into years
At times I want to go back
To what was before I met him
The level of empty contained in the past
Was fuller than his presence rescinded
There is no exaggeration
That without him I cannot breathe
In this lies the danger
When he became the fabric of me
My true love I gave only
to one other this way
He held it long after he passed away
In truth it paled if portrayed
In moments such as these
I want to scream
No matter to whom be displeased
Cross valley and mountain it's rivers and streams
How long my darling
how many more moments
For something so right
To feel so wrong so alone
For what is lonelier
Than a moment alone
A timepiece which knows no hour
In the span of a moment unknown
Me
Copyright © Sarai Virden | Year Posted 2013
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