Poetry – Flashes – just a life gone by.
Flashes
Between the forceps and the soil
We have one brief flash
To illuminate the soul
With the note of a song
Surrounded by the ghosts
Of other flames
Frozen in time
A second long
Revealing glimpses
So short
That we gasp in wonder
And then
Gone
(Written with a view to explaining how little we see of the infinite universe in such brief a tiny life. No sooner have you understood your role and it is over. You never understood. So little time to achieve so little. What can only ever be so little. Yet if we all bring our note we can at least create a simple song.
Completed on watching the video of Brian Epstein and seeing Brian and John and the frozen ghosts of the past. Brief flames frozen in time, glimpsed across time, never known but experienced. Would have liked to have met them. Would have liked to have found my note to bring to the song.)
Opher 8.1.98
Other lives, even if only glimpsed, enrich ours – an everyday miracle!
That is true Dave. Our lives are enriched in so many ways.
Opher, that is just beautiful! As Maya Angelou said, “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Having an answer isn’t required. Thank God!
I have my moments Cheryl. I wish I had more answers though!