Cattails threw shadows

Into placid stream surface,

Gleaming at the setting.

Beak to beak crooning,

Floating on curvy waters,

The swans patterned heart throbs.

From the west oozed

Burnt orange blaze, and

The waningred red glow

Silhouetted life’s moments

In earnest molecules.

And in pallid seconds,

In the midst of the angst of torment,

Between the demented heaven

And the heartbreaking earth,

The struggling soul gasps.