Eclipsed For Just a Moment

Thoughts as the light dimmed

It is National Poetry Month, and I want to dive into as much poetry as possible. Let’s continue to embrace this wondrous art form by engaging in it and sharing works we love. I’ll start off by recounting my feelings during the solar eclipse…

There’s something bigger
and more infinite than I.
Bigger than my religious affiliation
my philosophies
or the fact I love hot fries
with ketchup —

Solar Eclipse 2024
eclipsed my maligned belief in
humanity —

Like clogged arteries
the streets became congested
with onlookers, awed by the moon’s
dance with the sun

We stopped briefly, wearing our
work, our weary, our dreams,
and fears
We looked on as ONE.

All of us strangers, but under one familiar
sun, one familiar moon
on God’s blue earth. I slid my fingers between my
husband’s and it was not the eclipse
I watched and loved
It was him and his love.