How Glorious the Sunset!

One night the sunset rolled down soft and slow behind the hills afar, and I sat rocking back and forth with rhythm in the trees as headlights drove away, and turned my gaze from sky above where Venus and her brightest friends came out to play, to tracing helter-skelter paths of tiny crimson ants criss-crossing broken bricks below my feet like scars, and I thought of all the moments in my life that led me here, and how the ocean spreads across the world to touch the shore, and how the mother keeps her child so close and does adore, and I thought of you, of but a girl, but whom I hold so dear