Moments

do you know the feeling

of a realization so vivid it takes your breath away

a single memory, a tiny recollection, a time forgotten

that spins your world around

sends you back, pushing through a door you had already closed

not knowing something was still behind it

needing to be picked up and nurtured

ripping through your reality, reminding

that not everything we've left behind should be

and that uneven balance will quiver

and in a fleeting second

nothing has changed but everything is different

and you try to hold on to what you knew

try to make sense of the rules that suddenly changed

try to see the same world with different eyes

and finally, seize to exist as you were

place the piece in its place

and start looking for the next one