Looking
by Rachel Deveau
Slipping away, falling through clenched fingers,
Water that fills the deepest thirst
And disappears before it even touches bottom
Slivers of sunlight, waves of the ocean
Green trees standing tall, scent of rain on pavement
A first kiss, a final farewell.
Chasing the end of rainbows
Looking for what we have never known
But feel in the depths of our being
Or crashing to the earth
Reveling in the now, the here
Forgetting the magic, the dreams
Blind or not, we race to seize
A snowflake, finding that we cannot
For once it was, now it is not.
