This Moment In Time

Far on the horizon
a drop of molten gold 
boiled above the clouds
to bathe the top of the world 
with gilded light,
revealing diamonds
laid out upon a bed 
of velvet white.

Wrapped in frothy waves
of eiderdown
the earth peeked through
to view this splendour,
reaching upwards as if to grasp
the falling breaths
of climbers caught in awe
where beauty
bears no definition  
beyond the exhaled sighs
of wordless wonder.

And the only sound
was the beating 
of spellbound hearts
as they lingered frozen 
in this moment in time
as magic slowly trickled 
through the sky. 


october 2005
ŠJanet Reid