Moment
by Rebekah Griffin Greene

It was just a moment, but in that moment I saw you...
Your heart overrode the mask you had put up, and I saw how you
really felt...
You gushed at my smile after we laughed together, but it was just a
moment...

A moment of connection, realization, lightning...
You really cared about me, and it welled up into your eyes, but only
for a moment...
A flash, a nanosecond, but long enough for me to see the truth...
That we had affected each other over the course of time,
That I meant something to you, however briefly we had known each
other, and the connection had made it to your heart,
and I wept later as I realized the truth in that moment, the honesty,
the longing in your eyes, because I have known that longing for my
entire life and never been on the other side of it...

And I wanted to be yours, and in that moment I was, and you need
to know that I wish I could reverse my chronology and be yours
forever, but since that's impossible, I will have to freeze that moment
in my heart, like Beauty's rose in an airless glass,
a fragile flower blooming for an eternity...
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