An indiscriminate light

The winged, carbon fiber monolith banked right. The passengers sat in a malaise - many with their heads back and mouths agape, others collecting themselves as the craft gradually succumbed to the pull of the earth's crust below.

I admired the moon-like, endless depths of the Midwestern suburbs. A tiny flash reflected from an industrial gravel landscape below. Suddenly a second, a third - it continued. A persistent and tiny thread of sunlight protruded the dense cloud cover above and proceeded to seek out and illuminate every ribbon of groundwater.

Temporary or permanent, polluted or clean, drably or fashionably-surrounded. The light does not begrudge. Upscale abode or scrap-laden yard - any standing water sparkled. Each bright sheen is unique in it's individual shape and pattern. A pattern linear only unto the light itself.

The winged, carbon fiber monolith banked left. The moment, albeit brief, is encapsulated.

It will be carried.