Afterglow

After the all-of-it

Tucked into the fields

Dissolved into the pool

Exhaled into the air

Soaked into the skin

The Afterglow remains

In echos of the all of this day

To be fully alive here,

Eyes to the Sky

With gratitude for this

one more day…

Then to welcome sleep

The release—

As if the letting go of our days

Brightens the colors spilling

over into tomorrow

A tomorrow we may never see

As if forgiveness of the endings

Already sings in the afterglow

Acceptance of the all-of-it

The glory of this day

Always amplifying living with

the certainty of ending

Glowing on edges of goodbye

In echos of the all of this day

**Afterglow—the Background microwave radiation throughout the universe, hangs with the all of it, from the Big Bang, in echos of that day