Sundown

Ephesians 4:26

In pre-marriage counseling they told us to never

let the sun go down on our anger.

Whimsy notwithstanding,

the warning seemed quaint

since electricity has deemed our clocks

the arbiters of time,

and sailors now watch weather.com,

having jettisoned their nursery rhymes

about red skies.

But in the wake of our disagreement,

with the sky so overcast

(I circled the same point;

turning, you drifted off),

I just stared into the clouded night, wondering

how we might navigate to common ground.

~Ryan Apple