Sun-setting

As perhaps one of the most enduring loves of my life,

Your intimacy visiting me each day

With warm light lingering as it does,

Creates ancestral shade amidst the tall redwoods of California,

Silhouettes of stalwart rocks reaching for the skies along the Oregon coast,

And the foreshadowing of tomorrow

Stretching across roofs of New York.

As the fading redness of your daily farewell

Glides away from us in slow withdrawal,

And shadows invade the abodes of the living,

Darkening the indoor confines,

Occupied or empty,

Some will turn on a lamp,

Or a candle.

Still others,

Smitten by your ever-faithful love,

Will step to the window of their gratitude,

Savor your fleeting radiance,

And find themselves motionless,

Stunned by the beauty of your receding glow.

A caring mother of life about to sleep,

Who’s warm after-glow lingers on the horizon,

Reminding us with her bowing

Just how much we mean to her.