{"seoTitle":"An Instant — A Short Poem About a Fleeting Glance","seoDescription":"A short poem about how a single instant — a stare across an elevator threshold — can reshape what matters and reawaken longing. By Pemba Umoja.","keywords":"short poem about a moment, fleeting glance poem, elevator poem, longing poetry, contemplative poetry, Pemba Umoja poems","line1":"He stared at her.","line2":"She stared back.","line3":"","line4":"He was inside the elevator.","line5":"She was outside of it.","line6":"","line7":"It was just an instant.","line8":"","line9":"How can just an instant reshape you?","line10":"Change whatever,","line11":"ever mattered?","line12":"","line13":"Leave you breathless?","line14":"Reawaken you to all that is vital?","line15":"","line16":"Reveal possibility?","line17":"Longing that you never knew existed?","line18":"","line19":"How can one flash,","line20":"One, One-two,","line21":"Entrap you in a moment long ago?","line22":"","line23":"An elevator from which you'll","line24":"never exit?"}