SURPRISE

T'was what it was, 

Another turn of the second hand

Another hour marked by eternal time

crawling forward in ultra slow motion

Rather ordinary by all means

Something that would go unnoticed

A regular chain of events

drowned by the side of an untamed ocean

A cascade of stories

grabbed by the lens of a camera

capturing the raw essence of the present

fuelling the advent of an explosion

Melted cocoa butter

And petals trapped in a half smile

A cloak of cotton black drape

containing fragrance in a potion

A surprise nonetheless

gift wrapped in a reminiscent hug

sparking a time lapse torrent

of snapshots stored in imagination

A multitude of dreams and realities

Admixed with finding fantasies

discovered by serendipity

stuck in still life's precious revolution