Voices of Courage
~Jack Henslee

Though the pond is still
the image gazing back
shimmers with distortion
as though unseen influences
are shaping things to come.

The silence of the moment
is broken by the imperceptible sound
of clouds slowly passing by.
Their fluffy white reflections mirrored
in the stillness of time, a background
for the aura that surrounds the moment.

As a butterfly flits across the water
its brilliant palette soothes the mind
while teasing the imagination.
The colors of life which seem so endless
have escaped me.
For I wonder,
What color is time and sound?

Time, and sound, are images
framed in the depths of our minds.
A spectrum of things past, present, and future
A distant thunder approaches with certainty,
first heard as a rumble of despair
then rising to a crescendo of hope.
Promises of tomorrow delivered by voices of courage.