BREATH TAKING MOMENTS

There was something about the way he looked, maybe it was the whiteness of his shirt against his black skin or the way his pants looked tapered against his skin. he looked effortless, he was speaking into his cellphone. I was in a bus, a  moving bus so slow i could read sign posts, copy down both addresses and telephone numbers if I wanted to. one would expect to zoom past trees when you are in a moving vehicle, not this one. (again I digress)
I am looking out the window, at him directly; he was looking back too. then he smiled, i didn't smile back, i wanted to but i didn't. i don't know why. maybe the distraction of a smile would have stolen a moment from him. he looked puzzled and smiles again. this time i respond. in that moment i was thankful for the rickety bus i boarded, thankful it was so slow i could count the fruits each tree bore, infact thankful for all the checkpoints and speed bumps that only seemed too multiply.
finally I lose sight of him.
I took a deep breath.
Now I can say someone took my breath away at one point in my life.
But let me say this, it is not how handsome he looked that took my breath away. I cannot really remember what he looked like. I cannot remember much.
I can however remember the richness of his black skin. I can remember what I felt when his eyes locked mine. When his white teeth flashed. When I could feel him so close, close enough to touch.
I can remember what I felt, knowing I may never see him again.
how I felt knowing I couldn't step down from the bus even if I wanted too.
I like that it didn't last long, this 'Attraction' , liked that I did lose myself, lost for only one swift moment. I like that he swept me off my feet without doing anything but himself, and I was sitting all the while.
I also like that there were no expectations, only hope and illusion and a short lived happiness.
I realized in that bus the we just wanna be happy, it doesn't matter if it doesn't last long or not, only we pray and hope that one breathtaking moment is replaced by another.
Looking ahead  I find bare bottomed children playing and laughing together. I am happy, this time I laugh out loud.