Some Life Affirming Moment

Amidst the monotonous, suffocating, monochrome greys and browns
A sudden sighting of a sharp, piercing shape of other confounds,
Immediately reigniting past, pastoral, long-forgotten scenes
Where absolutely nothing else now matters, but to be lost in this dream

Slowly and unsurely, a bloody, muddy, sinewy bone-shaking hand,
Reaches out to the mesmerisingly floral, broken, barbed-briar found
Tenderly pulling it towards, a long since chronically corrupted, nasal-olfactory
Whose destroyed senses, have been declared missing and non-functionary

But now, from the deepest recesses, of some disused, subterranean cavern
The inhalation of such an intoxicating, heavenly-sent, scent stream
Causes rushing explosions, of heady revitalised, thalamic dancing themes
Instantly transporting and transfixing, to far-off, joyous transcendental realms

Only to be then, so cruelly crushed and sent crashing back down again
Reengaging with the stark, brutal reality of scenes and sounds all around
But oh, to have at least been there, among the ecstasy of blissful neglect!
Even if only, for just a fraction of one, time-elapsed, life affirming moment