The sunset obliterates the day
—Whatever it was, whatever was said—
It is all now exposed as naked hope ...
For the children to find the light,
Ideas to reach a home,
The bright jagged laughter that's shared
To be held in reserve
For the long stretch of loneliness ahead
Lifetimes bear such darkness
With a soft compassionate lamp
Patient as life fades away
To a deepening black
The light unobscured
How it waits for them
Without so much as a sound