MOMENTS THAT MATTER

Brief moments

Separate from all others

Lessons learned from mistakes.

Where understanding

Bursts into being from light

Filtering through

Trembling leaves in a wood,

Revealing a path at last.

That pause when a choice is demanded

But not welcome or easy.

A moment of joy—

That brief dance free of the weight

Of duty and survival

Shimmers like glitter in the sky

Of a snow globe,

Catching the light,

Twirling briefly as it drifts

Down to disappear

Into the flatness that hides

That wonder until

The globe is shaken once more.