Moment..

Verily dancing along,
like the setting sun on a lake;
she passes me by,
my heart fluttering in her wake.

I perch myself on the grass by the lake, my fingers roaming through the smooth pebbles, smiling to myself, my thoughts far away. I hear her twinkling laughter receding into the distance like the sound of falling pearls.
The timbre of the voice and the irrepressible joy conveyed by a look askance, her lips quivering in an unquenchable thirst for life.
She stood there in ankle deep cool water flinging a pebble across the surface, her gorgeous body eclipsing the setting sun in all its curvaceous splendor. The tips of her torquoise blue, ruffled, long cotton skirt flitted with the water, as it undulated in happy abandon. Her straight hair gently carressed her naked shoulders and fell across her face and over her lips as she turned and sensed my eyes piercing her back. She smiled and mouthed a silent "Hi", her lips fighting with her hair. I smiled back and suddenly realised that the pebbles I had leaned my elbows on were bruising me and fell back, my head hitting against the green grass with a slight thud.
She laughed, the gentle twinkling laughter flowing like symphonic waves across the water and the concussed feeling in my head, I realised was not because of the fall from all of half a foot.
My eyes stayed firmly focussed on this apparition, as she turned and walked towards me, the water splashing from her smooth feet firing up a million suns with her each step. Her hands swinging gracefully by her hips, a feeling of unbridled joy and the coy smile and giggle as - she passed me by.
I closed my eyes to capture this sight and feeling for all eternity. I opened my eyes a forever of a second later and followed her receding form as she broke into a run and flung herself onto her man.
Her laughter echoed mine.
A momentary lapse of reason on a warm summer evening lulled and snapped by the same laughter. I smiled to myself as I straightened up, looking at the curve of the sun as it started to hide behind the hills, and trudged along towards another dawn.