Day End
A billion years I have come
To see the lights and forms
Of the cosmic sea,
To feel the breath of particles in motion,
The heat of elements burning...
The day end rushes out to sea
From the western land edge,
Pulling darkness across the eastern sky.
Pulling darkness across the eastern sky.
I watch from the shoreline,
Unable to follow,
Unable to stop the lights decline.
I would hold on to this day,
Forestall another moment leaving,
Another diminishment.
But there is no hold to grasp
But there is no hold to grasp
On the end of a day,
On the fade of the light.
And so I watch
As Time, the destroyer of moments,
Ticks down to another ending,
And the great giver of light descends
Behind a wall of darkening gray.
And the great giver of light descends
Behind a wall of darkening gray.
It does not pause,
Does not wait for dreams and wishes
To come true,
Nor care for the plans we pursue.
Nor care for the plans we pursue.
So many days have fallen
To the darkening sea...
To the darkening sea...
I wonder how many are yet to be
As now the shadows lengthen,
As now the shadows lengthen,
And the darkness
Enfolds on me.
