04-29-2016, 12:52 AM
The twilight of forgetting
Perhaps it shall fall like this,
the twilight of forgetting,
on the old cupolas blooming
green patina, verdigris
some Michelangelo entombing.
Wipe from view the fading runes
in the long night of forgetting.
Then you'll unsight me all too soon,
in the witching white of clair de lune
and read new poems in the perfect moon
the old ones quite forgetting.
Perhaps it shall fall like this,
the twilight of forgetting,
on the old cupolas blooming
green patina, verdigris
some Michelangelo entombing.
Wipe from view the fading runes
in the long night of forgetting.
Then you'll unsight me all too soon,
in the witching white of clair de lune
and read new poems in the perfect moon
the old ones quite forgetting.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe