A Winter Sunset
The gentle onset of an ignorant cold
Over the fast fading amber-orange warmth
On shivers transmitted by a perverse breeze
Permeating all, unhindered by fabric
Unhindered by the very skin that clings
Laid bare to the bones and the blood
Yet, surprisingly gentle - a tease
The clouds conspicuous by absence
As the urban stars are being lit up
The Orion of jogger track gardens
The Great Bear of the snarling expressway
The moon is a billboard of gourmet cheese
There will be nothing beyond soon
The slowness of it all, and suddenness
Probe the finality of absence
As each weakening ray lingers on memories
Lingers on what could have been
The warmth of hope, fading
This transformation is a riot high up
The fringes of the western sky deepening red
The east lost to its own deepened dark
The hallowed inner consciousness
The only warmth on offer
The winter sun, slowly sets
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© Parched For Rain
The gentle onset of an ignorant cold
Over the fast fading amber-orange warmth
On shivers transmitted by a perverse breeze
Permeating all, unhindered by fabric
Unhindered by the very skin that clings
Laid bare to the bones and the blood
Yet, surprisingly gentle - a tease
The clouds conspicuous by absence
As the urban stars are being lit up
The Orion of jogger track gardens
The Great Bear of the snarling expressway
The moon is a billboard of gourmet cheese
There will be nothing beyond soon
The slowness of it all, and suddenness
Probe the finality of absence
As each weakening ray lingers on memories
Lingers on what could have been
The warmth of hope, fading
This transformation is a riot high up
The fringes of the western sky deepening red
The east lost to its own deepened dark
The hallowed inner consciousness
The only warmth on offer
The winter sun, slowly sets
-x-x-x-
© Parched For Rain
