Broken Sunset

In honor of Ariel and Kfir Bibas

Sunset brilliance

Backlit by the blackest of hearts.

Molten gold,

Your smiles, your souls, your light

Drown the Darkness

With cheeky giggles

And Batman wings.

You live on in the sunset,

Each fading ray

Imbued with the essence

Of your innocence,

Your marmalade sweetness,

Your incandescent light.

Fire cannot easily be forgotten.

Fire sears.

It burns still in our memories.

It leaves scars.

We feel it long after it has passed.

Prometheus’ promise,

Your flames shine lustrous,

Warming the embittered, the battered.

Hesperidia treasures,

You would not hate.

You lack the language for hate.

In your marigold innocence,

Blaze a path to peace

In our burning hearts.

Let your ongoing sunsets

Shed warmth and forgiveness

Where we rage

With flashing furor.

Let your teeming

Effulgence

Splendor

Luminosity

Gleam enfolded in the sunset

For all time.