The End of a Day

The End of a Day

Diving like a kamikaze pilot, the sun embeds itself into the diaphragm separating Earth and Sky. As the horizon swallows the inferno with cosmic parallax, darkness is harkened and it sweeps upon the Earth as a Raptor to its defenseless prey. Violent hues of searing light erupt and propel themselves upward until they saturate the clouds above, creating a galactic kaleidoscope. As the intense colors fade in and out, the ball of heat and light beckons all color as if a piper playing a mystical tune. While the atmosphere’s dying embers lose vibrance, where color once saturated, a mundane gray now drowns. Caught in the universe’s scale, the moon rises upward the farther the sun plummets downward. Now left alone after nature’s grand finale, the moon sits in awkward silence unable to perform.