Solemn Twilight

As the day grew unconscious

They weak sun subdued by a hungry horizon

Smell of twilight in thy sea’s breath

Be natural as breathing is death

Of a sun drowned in a sea as smooth as glass

O death! There is thy victory

O life! There is thy loss

In thy marriage of sea and sky

In this wedlock thy light must die

With falling dew thy weep of thy night

Waves cease to break into grey-ness

Thy moon will dance on thy smooth water

Stars will shine like pinheads from a black cushion

Staining the sky with spangles of a billion

To watch thy light’s funeral

O death! There is they victory

O life! There is thy loss

In thy marriage of sea and sky

In this wedlock thy light must die

With falling dew thy weep of thy night

Ebb and flow were a mournful silence

From a polished icy surface

With winds above to recite a cheerless psalm

Thy winds’ symphony like a windless day so calm

Thy night will squat upon thy ground

O death! There is thy victory

O life! There is thy loss

In thy marriage of sea and sky

In this wedlock thy light must die

With falling dew thy weep of thy night

But tomorrow morning unfolds with a yawn

Rising to unconsciousness standing tiptoe

Morning, why should we live another day and die?

In a solemn twilight why should we cry?

So be happy when thy day is young but sad when it grows old

O death! There is thy victory

O life! There is thy loss

In thy marriage of sea and sky

In this wedlock thy light must die

With falling dew thy weep of thy night