As twilight’s tired echoes fade,
The ocean’s golden tinted jade
Casts remnants of the day before
Upon the waiting silver shore,
And everywhere sun shadows play
Within the slowly dying day
Like dancing leaves they toss and spin
Before the evening can begin.
As daylight closes weary eyes
And snuggles down beneath the skies,
The evening speaks of dreams reborn
Before the rising of the dawn,
With all the elegance of age
Each shadow slowly turns a page,
And memories hark back to a time
When lives were held in painted rhyme.
Then joyous smiles and laughing eyes
And gasps of elegant surprise
Come dancing through those far off glades
Before each treasured vision fades,
Into the places that we know
Where memories drift upon the flow,
Meandering so wondrously
Upon that ancient timeless sea.
Then through the tunnel of the night
A far off gleam brought back the light
That once shone in the depths of me
In glowing shades of mystery,
And finally between the lines
Where poetry and life combines
I linger silent in the shade
As twilight’s tired echoes fade…
