Take A Moment

Time will teach you otherwise, they say.

Your thoughts begin to sink 

as your shadowed figure rests,

stretched out along the coast 

of a secluded bouldered beach.

You take a moment to think, 

inhaling the cool unimpeded air,

and with every long exhale

comes a feeling that deep inside, 

something tangible is lacking.

Yet, somewhere in-between

the tattered pages of your book,

undiscovered words lay in wait – 

each sentence ready to instruct

the voice to sing aloud the poem

your heart begs, today you write.

…..

Straight away your emotions butterfly

in their urgent desire to find an escape 

as the mind busily scribbles in silence, 

here in the extraordinary light of day.