The Last Sunset
I recall a place I never wanted to be

I recall faces
welled with tears
waiting for a hand to take theirs
I too, waited for hands

I recall staring at the face of
a man
with worn eyes
and a soul too tainted to cry

I recall whispering
in my head
asking what I could do
to make a new reality for us

I recall a pink sky
shortly after the last rays came in the front window
through half opened drapes
peeking in the house of a thousand sorrows
a place I once knew only in happiness

I recall silence
in an empty room for a few moments
where I sat and watched the last light fall
from a description of your face
that strangely seemed so distant

I will recall seeing your face
in line at a grocery store
in a parking lot getting in a car
on a couch at your dad's house
standing across the street from my job

I'll recall the last sunset
and feel it all come crashing down again