curtain call

A Red Curtain surrounds the pond,

Who decided to turn the lights out?

That it was time for the curtain to drop?

Red red ring,

and what does it bring?

A lot of nothing,

emptiness

and waiting.

Warm water dark,

enclosed in a decisive circle-

To become black with only lights from the one moon and few stars.

More lights picked out of the sky

one by one

night by night

until the only ones left are too dim

and hide everything from

sight.

Dark red ring getting darker.

Inverted curtain

containing failed creations

with love already spent

and trashed,

rotting on the ground

to wait until curtain call.