We felt those Antilles breezes
Part the palmy leaf
We felt the soft night tide
Slip slowly upon the beach
We stole whispers in shadows
Moon our confessor and stars
Our witnesses
This moment and this moment alone
This instant and this instant alone
All that is observed and all that is hidden the
Heart shall forgive, the
Moon will absolve
The love of the moment is the greatest of all
She must withstand the furies of a thousand thoughts
Hurled in anger and couched in stone
She must hold firm in the storm as the eye passes and
The maelstrom returns.
Time devours the moment's resigned offering
Time passes like the storm
And time shall return
The moment lost is a
Moment reclaimed
Only to be lost again
A sigh in a lifetime of breaths
Guillermo Veloso
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lost-moment-2/
