A Delicacy in Time

Daisy LeBlanc

The moon is bright enough to dimly light the charcoal sky

Spotted stars can hardly muster the energy to keep themselves visible

Soft rumbling snores from my slumbering love bring me to peace

Time slows down almost to a stop

It’s a different universe when everyone else is asleep

The night hushes a calm surrender to the weight of day to day expectation

This moment is delicate

A glass vase falling through mid-air

Until it smashes to pieces against the floor silently

The sound is delayed...

And with the crash, the day begins