Sometimes Life

Brings a moment

Moments drift, slide and glide and slip away, like the streaming shimmer of late-night headlights on a ceiling, as life brings a moment touching our heart like the wind and sky touch the ocean, as though the light from stars were passing through the prism of our being.

And when we met that day near the river, with the water blown into slow waves and shifting motions, causing boats to rock with the rhythmic clank of rigging and show the glimmer of patterns of reflected light, there was that moment fleeting, inexpressible and sweet that still brings echoes of your half-remembered smile.

We’re the universe becoming human and we bring something to this world that only we can bring, as consciousness throughout the universe becomes the here and now, revealing the mystery hidden in the silence, the whisper of eternity written in the wind across our endless inward sky.

Like light from stars becoming love and dreams, consciousness in the universe becomes the ordinary and the everyday, and then just sometimes, maybe today, it brings a moment.

Paul Mulliner 2023

I’m a writer and digital artist/animator based in London.

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