Capturing Cattails, Day 29 / "Beginning's End"

Jaws agape, rigged teeth

The colors would mean nothing now

Bright beginnings fin'ly meet

The ending; the conductor's bow

For with each day, with each breath

Another Death has called home-bound

Everything that one has built

Has come to the break, has been unwound

How can one be joyous still,

When such is every being's fate?

How can one be hopeful still?

With all Death has made this dinner date

Be joyous still, frail heart of mine

Take up your hope; be happy yet

For if beginnings had no end

Never would be the glory of a sunset