Darkness Creeps

For a moment, brief as it was there was light at dawn but now the darkness begins to creep in slow and methodic edging, along the horizon there - far off in the distant paler shades of gray grow as if night and the wind gusts wild, restless teasing, tossing, taunting the trees as the temperature drops and humidity rises, the haze becomes thick then rubs off steaming in the clouded sky followed by flashes of light flickering in pulses glowing with quick short illumination bound by claps of thunder echoes and then the rain falls, downpours pouncing hard, quick, fast, steady with intensity like bubbling grease in the pan and the darkness takes hold creeping in the hidden shadows of the mid-afternoon June storm.