The Moment

It suddenly comes over one,
something unknown
until a strange thing happens:
You see what you hadn’t seen
before.

And why is that?
A sound? A light? A flower?
Nobody knows,
since everything seems to remain
as it was before.

Perhaps you passed it daily
and now it’s changed,
both it and, perhaps, your life.
What can you say about it?
except you’ve changed:

that now you own your own life.
Call it love or spirit,
but then who knows
what love or spirit is,
not even those who have felt it

who still can’t say
exactly how it happens
or even why
they are alive to tell it.