Evening

Soft hearts don't remain very long
 Sharp minds don't stay sane very long
 And all the wide-eyed wonder in the world won't be enough
 To help me find the silver lining in the rain very long
 Heroes don't prevail very long
 Kind winds don't fill the sails very long
 And when this hellish forest highway diverges into unmarked paths
 It's hard to hold the tried and true and tested trail very long
 But there are moments
 Bright and incorruptible
 Where the promise of a better world flashes in an innocent eye
 There are moments
 There's something indestructible
 It hangs like a brazen grand banner under a clearing sky
 Once in a while
 On the crest of a crashing wave
 I can see the storm cloud's edge, and almost reach out and touch
 The crimson clouds on the edge of evening