Our Endless Numbered Days

Poetry

Photo by Marian Kroell on Unsplash

Sky and sea and land, these three amigos,
like love and fate,
lately delayed the day the dreadful daylight starts
of unkept promises and broken hearts.

God’s dying conspired to extinguish every ounce of youth and beauty
to send us scurrying to the heaven-sent skies,
or some dreamy city of the sultry…