Eclipse

Chalk one up for Science; it's there in black and white

An alignment of the sun and Earth with our rocky satellite

We know just how they happen, and plot them through the years

Predicting every date and time, and where they will appear

There's an empty sense of longing no one can quantify

When songbirds all fall silent and day-stars fill the sky

And ocean waters rise upon the land

And shift the shoreline like a giant hand

And there's a strange light that wraps this world in day-for-night

That alters form and distance like a mist upon the shore

There's a new tide that washes fragile dreams aside