At Sunset

He watched as the sunset over a tranquil sea nothing about it's beauty reflected his mood a bright moon shone onto the water how can it be he pondered that I am to leave? acceptance came slowly, with fear and sorrow leaving a world that would continue without him his contributions would remain-but for how long? his memory fading day by day, until forgotten the night sky twinkled with stars that played in the sky the waves called to him as they rolled into shore he waded purposefully into the ocean I am ready he thought-to leave before a new day he was never found, not the old him nobody had watched him leave, but I I thought of him often-until his memory began to fade what I had not seen that under the moonlight a figure had walked from the sea he was she- beautiful and free.