When day is at its close
Forget the part and rest a while
(Is contemplation out of style?)
Refract it in the sun’s demise
In burning sunset skies.
Ring down the burning curtain
Tomorrow casts anew
That script is yet unwritten, still
(And there are many parts to fill.)
Raise your heavy, blurring eyes
To flaming sunset skies
Ring down the flaming curtain
The stage is silent now
The postured lines have faded there
(Will the audiences care?)
And in the still you are surprised
By embered sunset skies.
Ring down, ring down the curtain
The play of here is done
Oh, actor, leave the sunlit climes
(Did custom pen your life in rhymes?)
Pause to seek the sunset light
A blazing instant - Here’s the night.
Curtain Call
