COOL  DARK NIGHT  (II; revision) (1977; Galveston Island, Texas)

 
the sun      
     
in constant rising  
 
still remembers  
     
its simultaneous  
 
equally continuous  
 
cosmic falling
 
hand in hand  
     
out of planet beds      
     
taking with it      
     
the fading sheets      
     
of twilights      
     
soft retreat      
     
leaving      
     
in its silent wake      
     
vast      
     
black      
     
shoreless lake      
     
of countless stars      
     
exposed    
     
in cool      
     
dark velvet night    
     
above    
     
wherein their bright      
     
diamond lights      
     
sweet  distant touch      
     
they      
     
transcendently      
     
beckon      
     
us all      
     
to fully awaken    
   
ascend    
   
and return    
   
back more closely    
   
to the greater  
 
more enlightened truth    
   
of who    
   
of what we
 
so much more  
 
profoundly  
 
truly are  
 
in our inseparable
 
relation to
 
the boundless  
 
oneness  
 
of it  
 
all