Gone Is The Moment by Charles Hamouth
i wanted it...my God i wanted it
...but how do you do that...
HOW!
the second you touch it...
it's gone.
it's the curse of being alive. After all what are we?
a bundle of thin blue wires...some red tubing
small burgundy lines
our largest organ is our skin...What are we?
our brains are unreliable...our emotions uncontrollable.
you want to grab it...hold it...
good luck! it's a lubricated bar of soap, you can't hold
i've tried...my life has been nothing but trying to hold on to it.
how can you be in it? how? if you can't even hold it...
i feel like an astronaut
moving aimlessly in space with no tether!
love would be my first choice.
when i delivered both my daughters at home
pulled them out carefully from their mothers womb...Gone!
their lives from one year old to know...Gone!
women...oh how i have loved...made love
i have several doctorates in love making
women are like butter to me...
i hold them more carefully
than i do an over bloomed flower
not to lose a single petal.
i refuse to breathe
just to hold their scent
as long i can
in the caress of my love...i do.
treasure their face...
die in the act of a single kiss
my God, their lips
dress myself in their skin.
still
it can't be done
as soon as it happens
it is gone
absolutely
gone!
you can't live there
it is like Brigadoon.
you'll never find it again.
you can't really live in the moment
not really
it is gone as you live it...
the present, is immediately...the past
it is fleeting
never to be held
i know...
i want so many moments back...
just to live in them.
you can't...you don't.
we live what was...
dream of what might be.
live in the moment?
as my words hit the page...the moments passed.
in the moment?
yes! i know i've been there
i just can't hold it.
the smell of the ocean...
it's loud heavy metal music...
the meandering haze in the air
that "i am invincible feeling"
the first time you held her...
my one true love now gone
the chiseled pillow look of clouds
looking down at you
as if you were the one.
that huge neon moon...
sits low in its living room
a baby breeze
touches lightly your breath...
a gripping moment
of unconscious union
moments galore...
in the moment?
i've tried!
it's always left as it happens.
gone quicker than lived
and than
only imagined.
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