Ephemeral Farewell

See the Beam from yonder portals

How its bleeding colors splay

Lifting hearts of weary mortals

At the waning notes of day

See it flood the earth in purple

As He draws the lucent scrim

In deft moments, smooth and subtle

Over present growing dim

Light divine, Celestial Ocean

Drawing to its shore our eyes

Turning thought from earth to heaven

From this toil to paradise

See the glimmer of a Kingdom

As the twilight cools our brow

See the lowlight ‘neath the curtain

Etch the skyline in its glow

Hear the cooling vespers murmur

Rising in dust-fragrant dew

Serenading the departure

Of another stanza through

Sweet the fading sonnet lingers

Dangling from the crescent moon

Feel it trickle through your fingers

Soft, ephemeral farewell tune

© Janet Martin