Moment

Each day has its moment of brilliance

Sometimes I’m given

The blessing of seeing it

As today, when the sun came out

Just for sunset

Just as we were going down to swim

And poured gold into the clouds

Then pinks

Floating in searing blue

As we floated in water

Bright with reflected sky

Dark with oncoming shadow

Bracing cold on top

But warm beneath

Watching the sky change

And the reflections

Till the pinks were mostly gone

Then we swam back

To the quiet, dark dock.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 16, 2011