Atilla

What's a moment in the air worth?

Is it just yet another trip, another drink and another jetlag? What
are the reasons that drove you so far away from home?


A moment in the air. The roaring sounds of the jet engines tearing you
away from the earth you used to walk on just a few minutes ago.
Raising you above, showing you the place below you, looking like the
postcard you never sent home.

Flying away, home, recalling the moments of your last few days, that
filled you with joy. A little sadness, mixed with the orange-crimson
colors of the sun, falling below the horizon. What was it that drove
you to an unknown place? Was it the desire to run away for just a
little, curiosity, or simple love? You're a traveller, alone in your
thoughts. A trip back from the nowhere, flashing back the moments of
your past, mixing up a knowing smile in the pool of memories and
regret. What is it that you left behind you? The smile and the kiss
goodbye from a loved one. The warmth of the afternoon streets and the
warmth in your heart.

At those moments, those peaceful and empty moments of clarity - all
you see is the mixing colors of the sky and the whiteness of the
clouds, that used to be above you. You see the night sky chasing you
and slowly taking over. You see the sky slowly fade from black, then
into the purple of the dusk, slowly to the light blue of the day,
fading away from you, and then into the little stripe of crimson red
sky. Right there - where the sun used to be. Like a rainbow, stretched
across the whole sky. Peace engulfs you - and the dark thoughts fade
away. Colors like children's paintings and candy. That's the colors of
your most precious memories.

Who are you, my little traveller? What are you chasing, what are you
running away from? You can see your life in such a different way. Bad
is fading away and the good brings back yet another relaxed smile on
your face. You close your eyes and let life get back into your
exhausted body. You can see it now, all there, all yours - there is no
good and bad, no joy and sadness. Just the little smile again, brought
up by the memories of two loving eyes.

The little lit-up places below, connected with each other. Pretty
shapes of light, shapes of where other people live. Is there someone
looking up for you? Is there a couple, staring in each other's eyes,
like you did just a few hours ago yourself?

The light changes then, the sky slowly becomes candy blue, in the
colors of the rising dawn. The night slowly fades away, despite the
fact that you should've been engulfed in darkness. There is no
darkness where you're going. There is no darkness in what you just
found in yourself.

The plane goes down. Down through the thick carpet of clouds that has
covered your home. You get into that cover of pure white, like a baby
put to sleep in the soft, white cradle. The purity of the clouds
engulfs you. You look out and you see the little shards of ice, the
little drops of water - glittering in the blinking lights of the
airplane's wings. Like a blitz-light in the club you'll go to.
Flashing moments, white reflections of the tiny particles shining
in the fog. Like the glitter in the look of your loved one, like a
diamond necklace on the neck you used to kiss.

What does it matter where you started from? What does it matter where
you landed to? You've found the colors of your life in those few
hours. You've found the smiles and the warmth of those gentle
caresses. You've found yourself, again - the happiness within you and
the smiles that will wake you up in the morning.

You live. You love. You know.

Yourself.