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Watching the Sunset

December 19, 2018
By DylanK BRONZE, Melville, New York
DylanK BRONZE, Melville, New York
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Is this the sum of all that I have done

For when this sun sets, birthed is a new one

Into a world from which no soul returns

Haunted are they, for that is what they yearn

Yet while this sun spends his time next to me

The others can only worry with glee

For in the next world in which I shall live

There is much more to take, to share, to give

But before I am set to disappear

No longer can I block their wretched fear

For a new dawn is not yet what I crave

Though I will try to find pieces to save

Fated am I to have battles to fight

And try to withstand time’s eternal bite

With each battle, more and more I shall change

And thus more pieces will be rearranged

Until the day when I will truly see

What it is I have indeed come to be

And I shall gaze into the mirror wall

To see nothing except a good man’s fall

So in this moment will my fate be sealed

As I look out beyond this rodent’s wheel

And realize will I that in this vain quest

It was I who put my future to rest

Alas, the sun has now set on my home

Without its colors will I always roam

For instead of gazing upon the light

All I could see was the cold, barren night

O, how much I feared the unyielding gloom

But it was fear itself that shaped my doom


The author's comments:

This is a satire. It is saying how people focus more on what could happen in the future rather than what is happening in the present.


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