Between loss and acceptance

There’s an overlook, a road end by our property, 

And people gather there on summer evenings 

 To watch the sunset. 

 But once the sun goes down, they drive away, 

Never realizing how glorious the colors are 

That emerge between sundown and night — 

A beauty that reminds us 

It may not be the endings in our lives 

 But the aftermaths of those endings 

That have the most to teach us; 

The intensity of emotions that arise 

Between the loss and the letting go…