(written 1999)
It swiftly falls in a darkening sky.
It hides in the corner of your wandering eye.
It softly babbles in your listening ear.
But breathing it in is your greatest fear.
It makes the sunlight too bright to bear.
It soothes the burned skin that you carefully wear.
It always tells the sadness in a heavy tear.
But it never leaves you alone on an empty pier.
-JHJ