As I drove to the supermarket just now, I had the windows open...the air was finally the promised cool it teased all day, but the sun had made it harsh; brutal instead. The coolness drifting in and swirled about the car as I sit and wait at the red light. I looked up past my window, beyond the line of shops and buildings; beyond, above...gazing out at the sky. The clouds splashed against the sky like the quickest of brush strokes, a deep and rich blue against the fading steel grey of the post-sunset sky...and I looked.....it was so large....so vast....the sky loomed forever like a dream...infinate; wonderful; eternal as I sit and stared at it...feeling myself drown in the pull of it's beauty...

All too soon the light changed and again I was racing down the road, the burning fire of the engine roaring as the wind screamed in my ears...the sky still high and large above; racing along faster then I could ever go...following me, teasing me; darting ahead of me as it played...I felt it there, so close but so far away...reality slowly fading away the games and the moment...crashing me back to the hard earth as I turned into the parking lot...the sky raced away...flew so high I lost sense of it as I walked slowly and sadly into the mundane and lifeless store...

....nothing more to say....just a moment captured....

~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream at 4/4/2001 08:57:52 PM ~ ~