A Moment Defining A Lifetime

Moments are what this life is about

Moments are us, inside and out.

Combined to create memories

Put together, to build magical journeys.

They bring within all in every way

The smiles, the laughter, the tears that sway.

We go on living them as time flows

The enormity of these moments to remain unknown.

We hold them close as precious pearls

The more the merrier as life unfurls.

But only a single one enough to shatter lifetimes

Only a single one can crash the entire universe.

Hidden remains the magnitude of a single moment

Until you have seen your child go still and frozen.

The moment leaves you wondering what happened

In one I was living, and in the next how it all vanished?

Whatever I gathered swept away like dried leaves

No boundary, no wall, no safety enough weaves.

I stand like a shrivelled tree in the fall

Forced to witness what remains to behold and all.

But oh moment that passed by

My baby is no leaf for you to blow away.

You need to talk to me and stay

For she is not just a memory you take away.

What part of you, oh moment, should I hold onto

I don’t know who you are to pursue.

Little moments put together made a life

And a single blow enough to break the alive.

Your power belittles me brutally

I remain scattered by you mercilessly and cruelly.

What moment will I need to summon it all?

To be able to put together my pieces to barely crawl?

Can I gather those moments again?

Can I put them together to be alive or sustain?

O moment so merciless and deceitful

O single moment so defining and powerful.

My baby you took to never return

My moments all with her and me in her.

Yet every moment I shared with her

Lives within me, quietly, forever.

For love is not measured by how long it stays

But by how deeply it changes our days.