Heartbeat

a sun going down i'd like to capture

in painting or song the motion and mood

a sky i would steal if it could be held fast

the wind dies away it's perfectly still

you can't exceed that kind of sundown

enormous beautiful heartbeat of earth

it's so smooth and still it's so restless

concentration beginning and end

the moon rising high light in the darkness

creating a gleam you can't really grasp

somehow unreal both tempting and scaring

indistinct phase vague and reserved

you can't eclipse that kind of moonrise

magical heartbeat of earth

it's so slow and still it's so restless

steadily taking its course

sound of a heartbeat

stable and certain - life

breath of a new day

welcomed in wonder