Goodbye Tomorrow

Pitter patter preen and pine

One final evening splayed out divine

Laid to rest under a docile wave

A eulogy writhes in the absence of the grave

A mist of red beheld a ray of blue

The heartfelt silence of an “I love you”

Tossed overboard to pay my dues

To the ocean floor in concrete shoes

Try as I may and try as I might

The only constant left is the bitter endless night

Forever and eternal now comes to a close

A lost little sparrow in a murder of crows

Vagrant and voracious and indelibly unkind

A past life lived begins to unwind

Masked in the torment of complacency and contempt

Birds of a feather cast a befallen last attempt

Crashing to the Earth as a marble stone hand

Reaches toward the sunset of a far off distant land

Nails and nuance cleaned silver and neat

The corpse of tomorrow lies under all our feet