The Canvas of Alpenglow

 


On yesterday’s hills,

The alpenglow of sunset

Radiates like molten gold;

Yellow, orange, red

A flurry of colours

Dance in the mountains’ fold

 

For a brief moment,

Just after sunset

Bleached are the colours all,

A sheen of white wraps the hills

And gold turns to silver

In the whitewashed evenfall

 

If you ever lose your way

Or get drunk

In the melancholy of your fortitude,

You have permission

To return to that argentum,

TO that broken interlude

 

In that last dash of daylight

When the sun is already lost

You will find the last lines

Of our songs of day

Still humming with the tunes

Of rhododendrons and mountain pines

 

But to your surprise

You will find them unfinished

They were never really done

Deliberately left lacking

That one day, you return

To write what you couldn’t learn

 

Racing against time

I know for sure

You can finish the song,

Perfectly wrapping

What we started

But stranded ago long

 

You will finish

The unwritten lines

Paint the canvas white,

But don’t get surprised

If after all of this

The skies don’t bathe in light

 

They were never supposed to:

These are the Gods

We could neither win or fight,

But that you and I, lost wherever

Are not scared anymore

Of the dark of blinding night…

 

18th October 2025

(Cover Image: Deviantart) 

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