Something So

When something so distracting hits the eye
And scoops the mind up off from its soft perch,
And with the thoughts in tow it soars the sky
Then descends the atmosphere and sweeps the earth;
When something so exciting takes the breath
Out from the lungs and stops the beating heart
So teasing life with short glimpses of death
And no apologies does it impart;
When nothing so does happen to my being
It leaves me with an emptiness inside.
Like eager eyes forced to go unseeing
Once opened, from the sunlight they would hide.
It’s dangerous to live, but even though
I fear my death, I long for something so.