Love is like a Lightning Bug

Love is like a lightning bug, 

it consumes you as soon as you see it

Illuminating your eyes, 

drawing your attention 

You only saw it for a second before it was gone

The bright light flickers when you least expect it,

startling you with excitement 

The warm summer night feels intimate, 

almost peaceful even

But here you are chasing a firefly in circles around the grass in your yard

Just to say you caught it,

if only for a minute

Before you can grab the luminescence of another catches your eye

A dozen more tiny glowing spots fill the dark void, 

sparkling like a stream of waves

You are mesmerized and obsessed with its beauty 

No one can catch them all, 

even if you do the glow doesn’t last forever

Trying to keep something alive in a jar will eventually kill it

A feeling so fleeting you don’t know what you had until it's gone

The sun will rise and you won’t be able to see the lightning bugs 

But you still wait for it to be dark again every day.