Moments and Images | Alyssa Sanders

IMAGES

I looked to the heavens and saw
the vast sea of gray fight the dark.
Before my eyes the shining,
shimmering of a luminescent orb
seeping between the waves.

I close my eyes and in
the diverse world of my mind I see
the beacon that is my home.

In the black of night,
there was a flickering candle
stealing darkness from the space of about my arms length
casting an eerie glow on my pencils, bible and journal.

MOMENTS

Wow.
I thought we had something great.
Then there was a beautiful moment of realization.
Now that I see you clearly,
I wouldn't take a second glance.

One of millions what are the odds
that this cohesive drop of hydrogens and an oxygen
came from thousands of miles,
fell for hundreds of feet and
decided to fall and stain my blue suade shoes.

There was a moment, a lapse in time
when our eyes caught glances from across the room,
but quickly turning we resumed