Sun departs the day
With drawn-out sigh
As do I

Long exhalation of a day’s excesses
Collected in mind, heart and spirit
They flow  from me
An outgoing tide
To lap against the shoreline
Of night’s welcome emptiness

Now breathe in the stillness
As the wind and the sea
Whisper lullabies
Until even the sparrows and gulls
Are content in  the descending silence