Lightning Beauty

On a gloomy day, burdened by life's strife,

I sought respite from my internal blight.

Then, a sound caught my ear, a bird's sweet life,

Its song a balm to calm my restless night.

As I sat in stillness, lost in thought,

A sudden flash of light pierced through the grey,

And in that instant, my heart was caught,

For you appeared and stole my breath away.

Your beauty struck me like a bolt of lightning,

A force of nature, bright and bold and rare,

And though our meeting was so fleeting,

The memory of you still fills me with a flare.

Thus, I thank the birds and gloomy skies,

For bringing you, a beauty that defies.