Sundown

Posted by Paul F. Lenzi on May 26, 2017
Posted in: Free Verse, POETRY. Tagged: , , , , , , , . 31 Comments

 

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stop the shadows
please stop them
already too lengthened
stretching my stick figure
legs tall as ambulant trees

head drawn darkly
in sharp angled
chimney-stack silhouette
hideous with an
elongated scream

reaching closer toward
end of day
wanting to touch
that dead moment
of sundown oblivion

 

 

(originally posted November 2013)

31 comments on “Sundown”

  12. Poignant and powerful, Paul.
    Makes me think of a line from a song
    “…So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
    Racing around to come up behind you again.
    The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older,
    Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.”

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