• About
  • Books
  • Essays
  • poetry

thoughts. words. action.

(mostly) short poems on life and love

Into His Twilight

February 1, 2017 by Michael Guerin

I visit you like an old friend
Well acquainted with your ordinary ways
Of telling a story fit for any occasion.
We sit like stones on the wooden porch
As the last gleams of sunlight die away behind
The rounded hills of my youth, and
I pause for a minute or two half-expecting
Your smile to slowly slip from view.
You nod — and my mind trips down
Those dimly-remembered paths of other stories,
Other twilit times at the lake
Poised on rickety metal chairs painted
The color of rust.
It all comes down to this,
You seem to be saying, and as the silence
Closes in with the impending night
I realize that you never promised anything more.

for Pépère

About Michael Guerin

writer, dreamer, lover, seeker. labels never reach the heart of any matter, but they might be a place to start...

titles available on amazon.com

ocean rain
Flowers for Rumi
beneath the waves
Found & Lost
Nature Speaks
still life
between black & white
mind & machine
world thru a window
Ghosts, Flames & Ashes

oracle decks available on etsy.com

Contact, Like or Follow

  • facebook
  • amazon
  • etsy
  • thumb-tack
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Copyright © 2025 · thoughts. words. action.
Powered by Success Marketing · Log in