When The World Stopped

They say time flows ever-forward,

That the world will keep on spinning,

But I remember a day I couldn't look onward,

For the sight before me had my heart skipping.

Skin as clear as water,

Hair like dark silk on a bed,

With eyes like dark embers,

And a voice that echoed in my head.

Ah, a voice like the air,

So easy to take in.

To ruin it with my own, I wouldn't dare

So soothing I could sleep in.

In a moment, a lifetime passed,

With all that life has to offer in it.

The good, the bad, it all flashed,

And was I shook? Maybe a little bit.

Of course, I was shook. Are you kidding?

The forces of nature overtook me.

I was utterly helpless before their bidding.

Though frozen, for the first time, I could see.

And OH! What a sight it was!

Suddenly life had meaning,

For love burned hotter than fire does,

My love from within, shining.

The world was suddenly filled with color

After an eternity trapped in monochrome.

Once before, life couldn't be duller,

But passion stirred, yet could never roam.

How does one move over a thousand miles an hour

Without moving a single step?

To be suddenly filled with infinite power,

Yet paralyzed by its unfathomable depth?

It perplexed me and vexed me.

So innocent yet so bewitching.

A moth to the flame? I must be.

For it all felt like I was dreaming.

All of my senses were melding,

Swirling, mixing, and combining.

In the heat, my body was melting.

In the air, my spirit was soaring.

Yet between heaven and earth I stood,

Boundless, endless, yet contained.

A fool supreme and misunderstood

With a feeling too grand to be explained.

I had not the words then, you see,

For I was a boy, not a man.

But she made see the man I wanted to be

When she took me by the hand.

It was like weightlessness at the touch,

Like floating in space where only time dropped.

I remember it like yesterday as such,

The day when the world stopped.