Day by day it is dawning upon me
The fog meekly melts away leaving behind
A blanket of tears on the razor blades of grass
This gap between you and I
Stretching from me at dawn to you at dusk
This distance that separates us is not to be closed
We are now separated from each other by the length of the day
You are off to disappear into the mysterious night from which you came
You disappear from me just as you appeared to me
An ethereal apparition waxing and waning in form and fashion
You came to me out of the dead of my night
You became the light that warmed my face
The flowers followed you as you passed by
The birds sang songs to you, the trees soaked in your love
At midday you shone so brightly, burning my skin, razing my eyes
Then you slowly began to set
I say you going down, I knew it to be inevitable
I summoned up a storm, a tempest, a typhoon to keep you
Clouds gathered, lightning flared, thunder rolled
But it did naught to keep you from setting
All I did was to block you from my sight for a time
Then came several months of sullen acceptance
That this is how you are
And this is how you always must be
And I cannot stop the night from falling over me
Separating you and I, my heart aches to Di
And I know that somewhere else
On somebody else’s horizon, you will
Once again be the rising sun
And I hope, I know, that someday I may
Find comfort with another one.