The Vision Cleared

Sometimes I wonder what it is

I saw in those forgotten days.

What beauty was that caught my eye,

bewitched as I must have been.

The beauty fades in the reflection,

the image seems so different now.

No longer in the heart of such

illusion that once captivated.

Oh, to be able to glance upon

what passed before me as it was

when wrapped so tight

in shades of what awaited me,

that which disappeared so soon,

lost in the moment’s passing

and the vision cleared so soon.