Dear Sunset

Today was most exquisite as

I took time to stop

To visit with some friends

From ‘round the way

How they added joy to my day!

I love just catching up

With those who fill my cup

With love

And simple fun filled events

All of which are sent from above.

Oh sunset, dear sunset,

As I spied you going down,

The reds and blues,

Your colorful hues added a spark to my day.

I never felt this way!

Until I started to see the

True and heavenly

Beauty

In a simple sunset.

You are glorious and yet

I am no longer sad

Like I was when I lost

My dad.

Sunsets haunted me then

Because he died at six ten

And, I remember that on every

nightfall

It was a time to call

On everything I could to save me

From the ghosts of my past,

So chilling and haunting

Those dark nights did last.

Then one day

An angel came my way

And made me sit

And watch with it

As the sun was going down

Almost touching the ground

With embers of the

Brightest red

For once I did not think of the dead

Just the sheer beauty of the sun

When His day is done

And oh how freeing it was... and still is.

copyright 2008 by Miriam L. Jacobs