Thursday, January 21, 2016

A Moment Lost

I do not mourn a loss of love,
but the loss of
a moment.

Fleeting, hazy, and scandalous as it may be,
I grieve its passing with as much emotion as though it existed for longer than
an intoxicated evening in the incandescent moonlight.

The water lapped up onto my arms
but they were numb to the chill.
My body was free of sensation
lest
my eyes that were burning
trying to absorb the sudden desire, passion, and gentleness that exuded from your own.

There was
nothing
between us.
But for a moment in time we saw each other as beautiful.
For a few seconds we did not glare in dislike
or blink with indifference.
One time one late summer evening we felt.



-N.X. Blume





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