Torch Lake - Pirate Ship In the Last Lightt

As August day darkens with sunset

There are always those
Who cannot let go of the summer

The sail of the boat on Torch Lake
First a yellow flame
To the match of last sunray

Now
With the hills extinguishing last light

Sail becomes ash gray of a hard rain
Dissolving to black night

No guiding lights
To save it from the innocent

A pirate ship of skull and bones
Held captive to the noose
Of the windless

The cannon of universe
Finishes it

Bombards the lake with falling stars.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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