Motionless

21/10/2020 -  Poem a Day Compilation



The wind has stopped blowing,

Its gentle kisses paused a while

As I stand on this beach with you

Just as I have done so many times before.



The waves have fallen away,

No longer lapping at my toes

Or bringing ashore seaweed fronds

To dry in the midday sun.



The earth rotates stalls,

Its movement halted for a moment

So that we may savour it

And drink it in.



A star suspends itself,

The first seen as dusk approaches

And the sky follows suit

As if in sympathy.



No air escapes my lungs,

An instant captured without thought

Burned into my memory

Of we two, motionless, in love.