how to find your sunset

If I didn’t know better

I would say we have 3 stages

to watching a sunset

catching

the breath hiccups

clouds part for the dear ending rays

grass glistens

but not like the morning’s dewy coat

this one is dusty

grizzled from the day

and accepting an end

holding

you want to embrace the soft colors

they blanket the sky through the mind

a momentary rest

between day‘s lights and star’s grazing

to sit, to stand

to do absolutely nothing as she wanes

is irrevocably necessary

letting go

the sun dips

teasing the hills she created only a clock ago

these last few breaths open the sky wide

opening and inviting the night

withdrawing efforts of whispy pinks knowing she tried

because with every set

there is a rise