The Village at Sunset

The waning days

at Sunset Greens

are not your ordinary days

none of your

busy days like the city

The waning days at Sunset Greens

are slow days

dawdling days

and days of leisure

dozing in warm sun

drowsing at noon

around plush fairways

sitting in the village square

and then the early cocktail hour

after the sun goes down

when lanterns illuminate adobe walls

like fireflies dancing in darkness

their tiny lights flickering

making the square look like

an old Mexican village

but fatigue arrives suddenly

for residents here

long retired from the ebb and flow

and then another day

when another sunrise

eases in

and in those rays of warmth

the old folks smile

waiting for sunset at Sunset Greens