Darkness Descends
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A spent sun shimmies down a sanguine sky,
into the ebony blackness of space.
And birds roosting in trees no longer fly,
while a ghost moon rises to find its place;
smiling down on Earth with a friendly face.
Chameleon clouds, crimson, and cerise,
graze the horizon like woolly pink sheep.
And as ruby rays of sunlight decrease,
billions of stars awaken from their sleep;
while shape-shifting shadows stealthily creep.
Silhouettes merge, as dusk's darkness descends;
blurring the edges, where night's curtain drops.
And as the day's chatter silently ends
unveiled stars morph into backstage props:
and the show continues: it never stops.
A cricket's chirp announces the next act:
nocturnal players scurry to the stage.
And as moonbeams and fireflies interact,
owls and bats start flexing their wings backstage,
while the diurnal actors disengage.
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2018
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