Like a fleeting albatross across the violent, calm, tide wracked seas
I saw it in passing as my mind moved through fluffy clouds of insubstantial somethings
And felt a momentary sense of déjà vu, the fertile oasis in the arid, wind swept desert
It rested momentarily in my wiser unconscious
As I dreamt of eyes which spoke as silent days passed
then fluttered away on ragged wings
Of the monotonous normality of stress filled boredom
Once I touched it with the long reaching arm of my thoughts,
Though it stretched them to their fullest extension
then there was a moment of pure unadulterated clarity
Like transparent shimmering rainbows
this made me begin searching for it,
As my face became more experienced and my mind grew quicker
but it continued to elude me, fluttering and dancing
Between my thoughts as I strained my neck to catch a glimpse
until eventually I stopped looking and searching,
I began to see in the more orderly chaos of my mind
and sat deep in contemplation,
Sifting through the sands of a thousand compiled memories
Oh, what joy I found, as my hair turned silver I found gold and was calmed.
I held it for a while, then let it fall, let my spirit float in the pure simplicity of knowledge
Oh, the miniscule joy of a lifetime of looking
That it should come to this;