One Moment

by Anna Erickson

 For a moment you let me forget what the world meant. A place where everyday seven billion of us strive to understand, together with all of its countries, peoples, and fires; I was allowed to forget. Love locked, living in a place without limit, without borders; a place where the past didn’t come out to claim me. I was able to forget plagued memories, labels, and fixed implications, because you were new and I was new to you. Your touch had a spark of renewal, and I felt pure again. Only your name I craved, your grasp the only I would feel. But hardly, because just for a moment this last. One terminal call, ending a rush I wished passionately to prolonged. Now, it's over. And as my feet hit the ground, my eyes are filling fast with tears; and I blink and blink, but the world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is that our eyes blur the truth when we can’t bear to see it.