This Moment

Wondering
Searching
Through mist
Amidst shadows
Dancing
Flickering

Wandering
Shouldering
A weight
I wait
How long?
Just how long?

A crunch underfoot
A boot beats down
Like deadening thunder
And unwanted blunder

Shivers
Slivers of shining red sky
The glimmer of morn
Trying to escape night forlorn

Time stops
Stillness sets
And a cricket sings
Its lonely song

I wait
And wait
And wait no more
Night is gone forevermore

Light sounds aloud
A refrain of tomorrow's song
Not proud
Not loud

But distant
And faint
Echoing into today
Like all singers pray
With intensity of fear from death
All breath
Declares

This moment is mine