Moment (from the book Freedom Writers)
- Let him wish his life
- for the sorrows of a stone
- never knowing the first thread of these
- never knowing the pain of ice
- as its crystals slowly grow
- needles pressing in on the heart.
- To live forever
- and never feel a thing
- to wait a million lifetimes
- only to erode and become sand
- wish not for the stone
- but for the fire
- last only moments
- but change everything.
- oh to be lightning
- to exist for less than a moment
- yet in that moment
- to expose the world to every open eye
- oh to be thunder
- to clap and ring
- to rumble into memories
- minds and spines
- to chill the sould and shake the very ground
- pounding even the sand into smaller pieces
- or the mountain brooding, extinct
- yet gathering for one fatal moment
- the power to blow the top clear off the world
- oh to last one blink of an eye and leave nothing
- but nothing unmoved behind you
- Vincent Guilliano
