wind rounding steel blades

Sun gives way to Night’s whisper

while Earth mourns Dayloss

open up ye gates

overgrown through Time’s neglect

stand and bare witness

for what eyes have seen

and what ears have heard this day

may disappear soon

Marta C. Youngblood is a writer, education and social entrepreneur based in Hot Springs, Arkansas. For more information on her current projects visit https://about.me/MCyoungblood.