GOING TO EXTREMES: WEST

This place is where the setting sun sets fire

To all the endless wide expanse of sea.

Here at the land’s far edge I find the wire

Connecting us all loosely. Look at me

Silent and gazing within and without

To find the meaning that the coast implies;

Places like this can edge the mind with doubt.

Across the air a lonely lost cloud flies

Towards the sunset’s moment in the glow

That is its soul, reminding me that here

Something’s extinguished. As I turn to go

A window’s wiped, a future is made clear:

Each sunset’s just a sunrise’s first draft

And we’re all sailing home in time’s long craft.