Let Evening Come

[Leadfeather]

This weekend I spent time purging books from my shelves. Many of them were Christine’s and covered topics she was passionate about. Interior design, genealogy, painting. In a small way handling and giving away those books felt like saying goodbye again. This morning I found a poem that feels the same.

 

Let Evening Come

 

Let the light of late afternoon

shine through chinks in the barn, moving

up the bales as the sun moves down.

 

Let the cricket take up chafing

as a woman takes up her needles

and her yarn. Let evening come.

 

Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned

in long grass. Let the stars appear

and the moon disclose her silver horn.

 

Let the fox go back to its sandy den.

Let the wind die down. Let the shed

go black inside. Let evening come.

 

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop

in the oats, to air in the lung

let evening come.

 

Let it come, as it will, and don’t

be afraid. God does not leave us

comfortless, so let evening come.

 

Jane Kenyon

 

[BrokenHeart2]

Thanks LF, that was beautiful.