The sun descends as though it bade farewell <br />The night comes on - How dark? - How close! <br />Heat lightning rims the black far <br /> mountains as we pause, blackening our path! <br />No flickering fireflies fly up like sparks tonight <br /> <br />They are gone away with the quicksilver salamanders <br /> <br />We walk to the sound <br /> of foot steps on gravel <br />In the empty air wordless and unknowing <br />No peeper peeps - nor breeze blows <br />Nothing astray in the wet grass alas <br />Nothing tells us except the fireflies and the salamander <br />There will be no stars again for us <br />No moon and no tomorrow <br /> <br />The brook that ran laughingly <br />In the summer meadow <br />It will not again flash <br />Nor the salamander dart <br />In the sunlight to it's crevice <br />Nor the fiery heart <br />Hid in the opal <br />Suddenly appear <br />Nor your smile cleave the dusk <br /> <br />Thus our final walk together <br /> <br />And beyond nothing - nothing beyond at all<br /><br />Isabelle Cooper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-end-steadfastly-approaches/
