The day fades away
but it's not in a state
of loss or decay

every moment of it
has been absorbed
into life's intricate web
and within it will stay

to be retrieved by those
who have been part
of that tapestry
sometime, somewhere

and I all alone in watching
the faint daylight flitting away
in time amazed and transfixed
am in the same pageantry and display
but can't find the right words to say.