(November 3,1950 / Selma, Alabama)

What do you think this poem is about?

The Eternity of a Sunset

I gaze into the eternity of a sunset

So it just seems

How reassuring to be

For billions of years

Yet disconcerting nevertheless

How complete

Finality eventually is

Except for perhaps

The lunatic in us all

And that lunacy

Is all that's real

And it's laughing far beyond

Eternity

Before any star

And beyond

Submitted: Friday, August 17, 2012

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  • * Sunprincess * (11/24/2012 9:43:00 AM)

    wish you had taken a picture of this sunset which has
    you captured..would love to have seen it..fabulous

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  • Valerie Dohren (8/29/2012 10:16:00 AM)

    Guess we are all a bit mad - good one Thomas.

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  • Charles James (8/22/2012 4:50:00 PM)

    And that lunacy is all that's real Absolutely! Excellent poem!

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  • Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi (8/22/2012 1:17:00 AM)

    billion years old sunset! so beautiful! We have reached the point to solve the puzzles of nature! Nice poem

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  • Heather Wilson (8/19/2012 3:44:00 PM)

    The sunset so beautiful, guess we take it for granted, a thought provoking poem, lovely write.

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