Encore--By Richard Carl Subber--United States

Encore

Evening is long, not dreary

but drained, a dissipation,

I am weary

and I linger here

to wait for drowsing,

   wait for silence

   to fill my ears.

I have enough of wary hope

to understand, again, tonight,

   that tomorrow is an open door,

      that I will wake to wanton singing,

     careless hope,

      impulsive lifting up

      of eyes and arms,

         dashing at dawn

         to do another day.

Richard Carl Subber is a poet, freelance copy editor, and writing mentor. Rick has two chapbooks on Amazon: Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups, and Seeing far: Selected poems. His poems appeared in The Four Elements: Effects and Influences, an anthology by Poets Collective; in the Aurorean, and elsewhere.