You Are...

(after a song by Manfred Mann)
by Kathryn A

you are the desert flower blooming after midnight
you are the footprint left upon the empty shore
you are the diamond born of tumult in the mountains
you are the planet circling the cinder of a star

you are the being with a fifteen minute lifespan
you are the moment just before the flame has caught
you are the two steps west when the only way is northwards
you are the fragments of the opal that was lost

you are the falling of the first leaf of the autumn
you are the silence never broken by a voice
you are the mountain stream that hasn't seen the sunlight
you are the calmness in the centre of the storm