Each Passing Moment

I await you tremblingly
In expectation. In anticipation.
Each passing moment

Day melts into dusk
Night a dark cloak
Smothering the earth

Skies turn saffron again
Insisting it's the dawn
Of another day

The song I sing for you
I sing falteringly
With each passing moment

The lamp I light for you
Shines waveringly
With each passing moment

My thoughts that dwell on you
Return to you haltingly
Each passing moment

I await you tremblingly
In expectation. In anticipation.
Each passing moment

-by Rita Putatunda