Shadow of the Darkest Noon

Can you cast

A shadow on the sky?

Can you turn the brightest day

Into darkest night?

Can you cover the bright white clouds

With gray and somber feeling

Until even they turn to water and melt

Sobbing on those below?

Can you dull a bright cerulean

And turn it muddy brown

Like the water you played in innocently as a child

Not realizing the implications of stained clothes

And stained skies?

Can you take a few love-torn words

And dash them across the heavens

Until sunshine turns to funeral rain

Marching towards its final breath?

Can you take ‘I love you’

And separate the you and me

With only a four-letter word

But as wide across as the largest sea?

A creek-jump to one

And a world-leap to another?

One standing in the tall shadow of ‘l’

The other trapped in the hole of ‘o’?

Can you turn what once was care

And make it more like ‘care less’?

Until all that ‘care less’ is careless

And you couldn’t care less?

Can you throw the sun away

And bring me back the moon and stars

The loneliest companions one could have

So high up in the Above and Far?

Or would you leave me standing

Staring up at the cloudy evening light?

Wondering if that sun is hidden

Or if my day has been turned into night.