It’s like one of those shooting stars that startles you at how long it travels across the sky

It keeps going

And holds you there in complete silence

Every second a small eternity

Across the sky

Keeps going

Then every half second your surprise continues

Then there’s that moment you know it will be the most special of all

Then you know it must end

Then comes the moment that you know it’s gone on longer that any you’ve ever seen

Again disbelief

Then you feel an instant of special uniqueness an uncontrollable gratitude that you are seeing what your seeing

Then it’s so far now that it becomes ever thinner slicing the heavens

And it ends

In a point so impossibly small that it seals your whole world in to itself and you have to decide what to do

How to respond

But you’re left in total silence

And you know there will never be another like that one

And that’s the longest brightest bluest shooting star I’ll ever see