The End of Day

 




The End of Day



The day is starting to fade.

In this quiet mountain glade.

The sun is sinking low

As I quietly watch it go.

Behind the mountain I see,

it slipping away from me.

The shadows of the trees

Are growing by degrees

They’re stretching across the ground

Creeping without sound,

like cold, black and long

skeletal fingers that belong

To some dark and deathly hand,

stretching across the land

reaching and straining

and slowly gaining

to once again this night

extinguish all that’s light

I watch the world slip

into their dark chilling grip

the night has quietly fallen.

My distant home is calling.



© James L. Frady

November 14, 2021

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