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Once an errant sun was spilling
colors it could hold no longer
all across the dark side of a lazy summer day-
trees were gently tossing dancing winks of gold
throughout their greenness;
clouds used borrowed wisps of reds and oranges
to disguise their gray.
The sand was softly pink, the sea aflame,
the moment frozen
as a never-fading image in a photographic mind;
promise hung so heavy in the air there was no room for prayer,
and I was much too young to know that darkness
followed close behind.
I was much too young. I called your name out to the universe,
to galaxies of energy that wore the face of time and space;
I called your name—the planets heard; the stars preserved my every word;
and heaven gently stirred and shed a single drop of grace.
The scarlet sky descended and was blended into purple night;
time was momentarily suspended for a brief eternity;
half the earth got colder while the other half got light,
and every soul remembered, in a single gasp, its majesty.
I was young—I called your name, but misidentified you
when you came into the frame. I had no memory of
the days on earth when I defied you,
crucified you,
died beside you,
knew the way and didn’t guide you,
or denied you your own Love.
A cosmic shudder linked the nerves of all creation,
and preserved
the records of my every thought,
and all the good I ever sought.
In its calm it never swerved outside the orbit it observed,
but added it to all the other
sunsets I
forgot.
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