To every life there is vouchsafed one gift:
   A single perfect moment within which
     The infinite appears – a lightning flash
   Eye-corner glimpse of truth, forever fixed
     In memory – as skies dissolve and time
   Itself is torn, still beating, from the breast
Of now.

TopicPoetry - TopicArt - 2004-04-11

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