On Sunsets and Loss

Staring stunned at the horizon,

Bathed in your warm red afterglow,

Weighed down by this teary air,

I await the breeze that used to blow.

As I retrace your last rays,

Drink in the splendor of your twilight,

Flashes of your times past, find me

Pining no more for your lost light.

Mistaken in my mortal ways,

I couldn't hold back when we last met,

I disown now the tears I shed,

Looking at your looming sunset.

For this night is not for mourning,

When strewn all around us we find

Memory lanes that lead to you,

Lanes your gardens had once lined.

You shine on where we cannot see,

Beyond Death's singularity,

So let's part till I too can leave

This cycle for eternity.

Interrupted

As I cast off each night

Looking for sleep,

I feel my likeness

In his pale outlines,

Pull away and row

Through his dreams alone,

Freed from my mind

And it’s wakeful confines.

In his wistful smile,

Piled in dusty stacks,

Lay all the plans

I’d made and put on hold,

Aspirations withered 

Waiting for their time,

Graying dreams 

Prematurely grown old.