every once in a while
one of them skims through
yonder greenery
and hurtles past my window
throwing me a look
before it slips through
unnoticed
and whirrs around my head
unknown and unseen
when all of a sudden
my mind’s aperture opens a little
and it whooshes in
spinning around furiously
restlessly darting from one corner
to another
barely giving me enough time
to see, observe or write about it
before it flies away
just as quickly as it came in.
i ponder at it
as it frolics away into the distance
leaving a debris of words
on my otherwise empty sheet.
i smile, i cluck,
i count my blessings,
thank goodness
yet another thought said hello to me.