It has taken many years

It has taken many years

To perfect so very little

Holding a cup

Just so

Adopting a pose

A casual study

Learned

As well as any other

I close my eyes

To enjoy the proximity

Of strangers

It highlights

An awareness of impermanence.

Nothing remains

Unchanged for long

People move

In and out of shot

Within a blink

Nothing is fixed

In place

Even lashes are shed.

When I open my eyes

I am a rabbit

Stuck in headlights

Waiting to be struck down

Cast to one side

Randomly

By the improbability

Of reality.