Sights worthy of immortalisation A play of wonder A canvas of colors Clouds of cotton A woman’s elation Caught in thread She hides behind the storm Indigo waves washing over With them soar the starlings Clouds with a life of their own Soldiers of the sun behind the curtain A symphony of luminance In their final hoorah against the twilight Soon the dome will be covered By a blanket of black Interrupted by startling beauty of her own The migration of the great The truly unattainable So foreign and so far A universal similarity The unforgiving muse The twisted reality That beauty in a single moment Is so easily erased Should we not know how to paint