Speak softly; sun going down <br />Out of sight. Come near me now. <br /> <br />Dear dying fall of wings as birds <br />complain against the gathering dark... <br /> <br />Exaggerate the green blood in grass; <br />the music of leaves scraping space; <br /> <br />Multiply the stillness by one sound; <br />by one syllable of your name... <br /> <br />And all that is little is soon giant, <br />all that is rare grows in common beauty <br /> <br />To rest with my mouth on your mouth <br />as somewhere a star falls <br /> <br />And the earth takes it softly, in natural love... <br />Exactly as we take each other... <br />and go to sleep...<br /><br />Kenneth Patchen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fall-of-the-evening-star/
