Maine Sunset
by RC DeWinter
Title
Maine Sunset
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils-paintography
Description
Copyright 2014 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
Last Sunset
A hot latesummer day,
we'd made that long car ride
to Maine,
a flying trip to see a school
you ended up not liking;
an irritable sort of day,
complete with getting lost
and being late for the grand tour
neither one of us enjoyed.
After an unimpressive meal in the caf -
pretty odd, now that I think on it,
for a school of the culinary arts -
we headed back across green lawns
to where we'd left the car,
again getting lost,
a few wrong walking turns
around some buildings,
endless faceless clones of muddy block.
Tempers short, we headed south,
dispirited at crossing yet another
off the list.
You told me not to fuss;
you weren't even sure
that cooking was for you.
I knew your confusion,
the blessing and the curse
of many talents
and the pressure to choose one
while starving out the others.
And suddenly the sunset to our right -
a gaudy bright palette of vivid color -
caught your attention.
You fumbled in your backpack
for the camera
and whizzing by at seventy
shot two dozen pictures
without stopping.
I should've stopped.
I should've stopped the car.
I should've pulled off the damn highway,
found a place where we could sit
and watch the sun bid fond farewell
to that long day.
But tired, in a hurry, I kept driving.
There's always another sunset to admire.
But what I couldn't know was that's a lie.
There was no other sunset left for us.
We never got to sit awash in twilight;
instead I have your photos in a box.
~ copyright 2014 RC deWinter
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