Have you ever been captured by the sun or moonlight in such a way that it transcends time? I have had this experience from time to time; It’s powerful yet fleeting.

Moments like it feel as if it is the exact light from the 1970s. A parallel universe. All it will take is that I stay still, believe and be transported home to my parents and siblings, sitting around the dinner table, as they were back then, and as I was before…

I can hear their voices crystal clear—close and simultaneously far-away, like rumbling laughter and a gentle melody.

I am instantly absorbed back in time. Nothing beyond then has ever happened. There is joy magnificent as first love, and contentment like a baby’s slumber. It is a celebration.

Oh, but I can never stay—

The voices, house, siblings, my father’s stability and mother’s sensitivity, dissipate like light behind a shadow. I call to it not to go, then

watch it all disappear.

Time catches-up

and my heart, it aches.

Maria Pisciotta-DellaPorte

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