Brandi Maxwell

Northern Lights

No sound

As I look up into the once dark sky

Now lit

With swirls of blue and green

Twisting in and out

Of nothing it seems,

Reaching over pointed mountaintops,

And over the trees,

Directly into my eyes

Staining them with vibrant hues

Of the deepest violet

And the most intense blue

Like the horizon just before sunrise.

And in this moment I think,

The world is perfect,

And the war and the ecosystem,

And the kids and tomorrow's shopping list

Leave my mind.

I am stuck in this moment.

Where the colors

Twist in and out of the dark sky

Reaching out at me,

Making it impossible to look away.