Reflecting poetry by Ashley Pentycofe
I sit here at work and watch the sun set tired and feeling jaded
It’s a sure sign of another day done and gone
The suns tired of fighting the darkness and slowly melting into the sky
With each passing minute the pink turns to purple
The purple slowly turns to dark blue making the sky dark and questionable
But somewhere through the heavy clouds the moon starts to peer through
Frightening off the darkness that’s trying to take over
The moon is the night’s savior
The bright side to the night
Along with the moon comes its army of stars
First the North Star it is the brightest and the strongest
It leads the rest joining the moon’s battle against the jaded darkness
Soon the clouds give in releasing the jaded and saddened darkness to new light
A full moon with its army of stars has won the battle and forced the evil to retreat
The moon and stars are heroes
The bright side of the darkness of life
The moon has grown old and tired
It had seemed to give up hope
The stars still try and they succeed at times but the jadedness is too much for the little stars
Soon one by one they give up too
They hope the sun will come to rescue them before they become part of the jadedness too
But the sun never comes it has abandoned them
The moon floats away abandoning the fight
Without them everything begins to die off
Slowly the Earth becomes tired, giving in to the darkness
It sinks into the quick sand of emptiness
The Earth has seemed to disappear from the atmosphere
All the pain it felt from being abandoned by the light has now gone
It tingles with numbness as your arm tingles when the blood is cut off from it
The blood that keeps it alive, now gone for good
In silence and darkness the Earth died alone, jaded and heart broken
The Earth had grown to love and trust the moon, sun and stars
It depended on their light
Now betrayed it lets go and sinks permanently into the jaded darkness
