Behind those green hills
The sun is drowned by clouds;
Sunset calls her home.


"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." – Annie Dillard
Behind those green hills
The sun is drowned by clouds;
Sunset calls her home.

The warm light streams through
The wide bright windows, dappled;
My poor heart aches - breaks.
The last hours trickle
Down to these final seconds
The final leaf falls.
Some days, Life throws you
For a loop, and you can try
To swim, or just sink.
I imagined you,
The love of my forlorn life,
And here you are - mine.
What will you do when
The prize you sought for so long
Seeks to bury you?
These thoughts weigh heavy
Like a leaden crown on thorns.
A most caustic prize.
“I feel overmatched,”
He said with resignation.
His world was all dust.
A wooden pencil
Dances across the blank page
Weaving a dark spell.

In the midday sun
Frantically chasing checkpoints
A genial whirlwind.


