May 16, 2018Poem

Where is Kora when I need her?

citymusicmemorytimelovemortality

Where is Kora when I need her?

There is a moment

When worlds collide

Past present and future

Meet

In the space between

One breath and another

Barely registered

As a beat of a heart

The tick of a clock

When a step is

About to finish

The trailing foot ready to lift

As a thought pops

In and out of mind

With an image

Barely formed

Ears pricked for the slightest sound

When there is nothing to hear

But the silence

Between things

A glass in mid fall

The stillness before impact

The glint in the eye

Of a cat caught in headlights

The surprise

I am still here

When there is little

To hold me

For that moment

I can feel you near

As you were before

In that instant

As worlds collide

Protons explode

Electrons splinter

You are there

By my side.