All Day The Color Gray Rained down...

 Farewell Gray Day...

and Goodnight

All day the color gray rained down

And drenched earth’s ragged dressing-gown

Then dusk, like an umbrella spread

Its deeper hue above each head

Where twilight is an ill, chill sea

And firelight, kind company

The wind, a friendless vagabond

Wails at each window and beyond

The treeline where the field is bare

Save for the rivers running where

All day the color gray rained down

Like tears from Old Man Winter’s frown

Before the morning draws ashore

Perhaps his tears will cease to pour

And he with his last farewell spent

Will climb into his bed, content

…strange comfort this, to listen to

Dear Old Man Winter weep adieu

© Janet Martin