Night Passage

Where the sky touches the earth –
where a thousand points of forever
spread across a distant shore –
                    Memories long departed
                    rekindled not as they happened,
                    but as filtered by the mind.
Fading light demands
one last embrace before the night
tucks the world away,
                                  till morning
and all the richness of the earth
is entrusted to the dark.

One last time I view
the world as it never will be again –
            never can be again –
The miracle of life is change.
Never ending adaptations
make the world constantly anew.