Limerick of the Week #52: Sealed With a Kiss

It was time to call it a day

When the sunlight stole away

Blocked by the Moon

Not a minute too soon

Sure as night and day both stay

It was time to call it a night

When the day closed in up tight

Intersecting all wrong

With a sunset at dawn

To send us away in a fright

It was time to call it a life

When I took my lessons from strife

A star and a moon run amuck

Sounded the chord that duly struck

And cut to my soul with a knife

Totality's a ruse, it seems

Like the fleeting plot lines of my schemes

All shadows pass

When mass passes mass

And I await my returning life's dreams

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And so ends a year's worth of Limericks-a-Week.

What better way to wrap the Limerick year up than with one about the recent total eclipse?