The Morning Sun

Publication date: 2019-10-14

Title: The morning sun

Type: Poetry

Publication: Collective Realms

URL: http://www.collectiverealms.com/literature/poetry/the-morning-sun

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The Morning Sun

As the mist painted the shivering hills,
I watched the sun rise with its full grace.

I miss these mornings with you
when it was only us and the world
faded away,
but now the sun is here and you are not.

I can see the early rays of winter reach your grave;
with its cold claws clinging to the block of stone
that marks your resting place.

The day led you into the night and left you there
and I watch and think of the days gone past
and the years ahead
of the life that’s become too long.

I hope to see your shadow
lost in the woods,
but the sun rises and it falls;
the sky is blank,
deep grey smeared across the horizon –
a suffocated version of what beauty was.

Still, tall trees in a hazy wind call my name
in their silence, beckon me within.
Maybe it’s your spirit buried there
that brings the woods to life.

I listen to the whispered song but dare not
venture forward, for you are dead
and the sun has already fallen.