{ could it be }

could it be

that you and i

are the lucky ones?

{ ldr }

tonight i sat as you prayed for me,
tears streaming down my face
because i'd forgotten how to lose something.

i looked out the window
at the sun setting, blasting the world
with golden angles, surprising us all
with its easy beauty. and as the wind lifted
everything ---

the light caught one filament of a spider's web ---
it ribboned unbelievably between two branches.
i was transfixed by its singular precarious existence,
its heartbreaking fragility, its marvelous defiant resilience.

tonight i lost something. i cried. i looked
out the window. it was beautiful. i believed.

---s.r.