We felt those Antilles breezes <br />Part the palmy leaf <br />We felt the soft night tide <br />Slip slowly upon the beach <br />We stole whispers in shadows <br />Moon our confessor and stars <br />Our witnesses <br />This moment and this moment alone <br />This instant and this instant alone <br />All that is observed and all that is hidden the <br />Heart shall forgive, the <br />Moon will absolve <br />The love of the moment is the greatest of all <br />She must withstand the furies of a thousand thoughts <br />Hurled in anger and couched in stone <br />She must hold firm in the storm as the eye passes and <br />The maelstrom returns. <br />Time devours the moment's resigned offering <br />Time passes like the storm <br />And time shall return <br />The moment lost is a <br />Moment reclaimed <br />Only to be lost again <br />A sigh in a lifetime of breaths<br /><br />Guillermo Veloso<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lost-moment-2/
