Day's END

[JackDallas]

Day’s End

It is the end of day
It is the end of all my days
for now you are gone
the one I could not lose
And lo! The earth continues
as if it hasn’t noticed

Arise! Arise oh brazen Sun
(Thou damned officious star)
Thy presence is offensive now
But God ordains you should
Tho’ life and time refuse to pause
as I thought they surely would

But when my journey is complete
I’ll join you by and by
somewhere up in Coal Creek Canyon
where the mountains meet the sky

So yet these many years I wait
for the clock to strike again
growing old and gray, alone
just waiting for Day’s end


Jack Dallas, 2000

 

[Addy]

Nice job, Jack.. thanks for sharing. Those top two stanzas expressed how I have felt sometimes when a loved one has passed away..

 

[JackDallas]

Nice job, Jack.. thanks for sharing. Those top two stanzas expressed how I have felt sometimes when a loved one has passed away..

I wrote this for my wife to let her know what I would feel if she checks out before I do.

 

[Addy]

I wrote this for my wife to let her know what I would feel if she checks out before I do.

What a wonderful but sad expression of heartfelt sorrow & loss.. I'm sure your wife cried when she read it..