I think she probably scribed
the most perfect lines across the crown of the sky
that I had ever seen
Shining light into the lowest valleys and
Burning the glades and their shade with a
Quiet brilliance
Even thru her haze she managed to illuminate
other dark days
And with subtleness show us all another way
She Darkened my melanin and showed me ways to be a black man
again
She reminded me of my mother
Warming cool days and making things alright again
or At least to endurable for now
I watched her pursue her dream as she settled in the west every night.
Oft i dreamed of pursuing her but
she ran too swiftly along her track
So far away she would wander
I wondered if she would come back..
Alas for the wings of Nike
I would give a jewel
To follow just once
But in my 3rd eye I knew only a God
could look in her eye
I half-human
So every eve I would pray her vision not see tears
as I sit along the coast of the Pacific and
watch her explode into arrays of amazing color..
reaching out
as if she were rubbing my hand to say
"Maybe one day
Never is always worse than late
Who knows what sayeth the Fates.."
And if not for this human and weak body
I would sit forever on this beach
tearfully
but happily regret
My failure to capture
The perfect sunset
Chris Lee
LifeSignZ
2012
