His rocking chair pendulums in the dusk His coffee cup’s half-empty, what’s left’s gone cold His newspaper’s folded and set aside - In the evening light he doesn’t see so well
Mist rises from the neighbor’s new-mown field Shy rabbits nibble along the old fence row Grandchildren escape from supper into the yard Chasing lightning bugs while Grandfather smokes
His rocking chair pendulums in the dusk And so helps stabilize the universe