# A Moment of Beauty

Ольга Слободкина

A moment of beauty -

the sparkling Sun

on the rippled waters

through

the unusually

elongated leaves

of the unusually

round trees.


Another year has passed -

a year of temptations,

frustrations,

success,

betrayals,

traveling,

work

and disease...


There has been

so much of everything,

but I don't seem

to have become

a more perfect me.


I think,

everything

has happened

already.


But that is not true.


There will be more temptations,

more frustrations,

more success,

more betrayals

more traveling,

work

and disease.


Plus horrors

of the old age.


And I don't seem

to have the energy

to become

a more perfect me.


But that is not true.


Sept. 19, 2006