Transience

I look at the ocean

this body of water that

stretches beyond the seas of my homeland

as if it reached the end of the world

Mountains rise from its depths

creating ranges

the spines of my nation at the tip of the sea

This is one of those moments

Timeless moments, floating untethered and

somehow separated from the timeline of

past, present, and future

Those moments that stretch on forever yet

happen in the span of seconds

Transient moments

Moments that take your breath away

Moments that remind you, however briefly, that

you are an interconnected being

A part of something greater and bigger than yourself

Something that is found both inside you and

out there, in the big vast universe

It is sunset and the world becomes

bathed in pink and yellow

orange and red

The sun shines bright just

above the horizon and I think this

This is what it feels like to be Alive

To feel the breeze on my skin and

see a world so beautiful that

my soul aches to be a part of it

To become sand and salt water and

live forever here, in this moment

To dance with the crashing of the waves and

the push and pull of the tide

To be one with the stillness captured

like sand in an hourglass

And then those moments pass and

you are left feeling nostalgically warm

A little lighter and a little fuller in different places

You know this moment is gone forever and

you will never be the same

The moment touched you and left a mark

And now it is gone

The sun falls below the horizon

A dog barks and suddenly

the moment ends

The hourglass breaks and time once again

moves forward with every second

The pink and yellow

orange and red fade away into night

I stay still, savoring the dissolving remains of this moment

feeling as if I have both lost and gained something

And knowing that those moments are

out there in the world and

it is my life’s adventure

to find them