Sunset

(A Poem of Longing)

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The sun slips,

Dipping beneath a painted Western sky.

Struggling against the horizon,

It pleads to witness

What it’s never glimpsed before:

Nightfall.

Unable to hold its grasp, Sun waivers

Then falls;

Leaving only us and darkness;

Leaving only us in darkness,

To gape,

Again,

And awe.