Day to Night

Standing on the solid sky – early for her arrival

Growing bright as lights dim on the opposite horizon,

As shadows stretch and then the sky –

To purples and pinks and oranges,

All the living let out a sigh

Of coolness and of shade

And gasp for rehydration from the redness of the day.

The deep colors of the sun dance upon the edge of the Earth

Only to be suffocated by the dark black of her;

So the stars can come to sparkle and tell stories in the sky

Providing a deep slumber under night's watchful eye.

3/20/2014

Riley Welch