Moment of Truth

There comes a moment

An empty, aching moment

When words are hollow

Shapeless and ungainly

Unfit for purpose

When metaphors are tired

Bleached and worn out

Dying on lips unuttered

When rhymes are strained

Wrenched and contorted

Twisting straight talk

 

It is a moment

A helpless, hopeless moment

When bridges and rivers

Do nothing

To unlock the enigma of time

When flames and flowers

Say nothing

To betray the heart’s deep secrets

When wings and flight

Know nothing

Worthy of the spirit’s journey

 

In this moment

This broken, naked moment

Music wells up from nowhere

Tremulous and tender

As it rushes into the void

And art explodes from nothing

Luminous and blazing

As it dives into the abyss

Only to be stilled and muted

Dowsed and extinguished

Swallowed by the moment

 

This is the moment

The white-out, wakeful moment

When all that can be said

Are three simple words

When all that can be felt

Are two hearts beating

When all that can be meant

Is I love you

This is the moment

The moment to live for

The moment of truth

 

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