For A Moment

Artwork by Malu Menezes

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There is a feeling that exists in my limbs and surges through my body like electricity and I can’t quite put a name to it but it feels like kids in the summer sneakers hitting the heated pavement . It feels like crying from the funniest thing ever trying to catch your breath with people who love you. It feels like falling in love for the first time . That exciting and scary feeling . It feels like wiping food from your mouth from the best meal you have ever had in your life until you have another . The taste lingering on your tongue . It feels like the sun beaming down on your skin in the sun and your sweat dances down your arms . It feels like what a new born baby smells like . It feels like long deep conversations with your 90 grandma and the laugher that sits in her smile that you want to keep forever . It feels like what thoughts of you make me feel like . No butterflies just warmness and safety. Feels like hope . Like promise . Like a new day . Like tomorrow.  I don’t know what it is but I wish I could bottle it up and savor it .