Just For A Moment

In the moment, your eyes glistening with loving gaze and soft music
The laughter, your joy in movement, dancing to boleros, danzones, corridas, big band music
Your emotion deep with sounds of Andrea Bocelli and the three tenors
Remembering the Sound of Music's, Do Re Mi...

Yes. Romance! Elizabeth Taylor, Maria Felix, Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete
The beautiful dresses, the regal walk
The soft wit and gentle class surrounding
How you can light up a room!

Gentle caresses, soothing words, healing touch
Maternal ideal. Yes and yes, and yes and yes
Brothers and Sisters, Nephews and Nieces
Grandchildren. Oh my. Tears wiped away. Consolation.

Learning a new language, working new jobs, adopting new ways
Refinement, distinction, humility
Compassion, helping - tough love as well
A pillar of society or its foundation?

I turned away just for a moment distracted by life
Inner searches, private sorrows
Public life, mean and ugly, hurtful and cold
Coming in from the ice, the snow and rain

Sad eyes, drawn face
elderly woman, waiting for death
unable to stand, unable to eat, tears and fate,
children, grand and great left behind

Where did you go?
Beyond recognition, don't know who this is
The spirit of hopeful innocence gone
The ghost of ashes, present

I turned away just for a moment to learn of life
Failures many, successes few
True loves once, twice, none
Aloneness, solitude

Who is this?
Unable to move, Writhing in Pain
Incoherence and confusion
Death at the door

Where did you go? When did you leave?
No note, no alert
Only vibrations of Love permeating the walls
Sleeping peacefully soon.