A sunset lasts forever, but only in the mind, <br />Its' colors are of many hues, and vary to sublime, <br />Light will fade and take away, all the colors worth, <br />When the skies escaping brilliance, falls away to earth. <br /> <br />The shadow of a tree is seen, reaching down the hill, <br />It stretches up the other side, getting taller still, <br />The sun now low and sinking slow, refracts and then discolors, <br />Clouds turn yellow, red and blue, and tinctures of these colors. <br /> <br />The sky is turning grayer, it's light no longer yawns, <br />It seems so dark and quiet now, the sun has all but gone, <br />The darkness slowly envelopes, the graying sky above, <br />If not for stars or moon at night, all light we'd be void of. <br /> <br />As dusk draws nigh it looks around, for things left on the ground, <br />For they are lost until the dawn, and just can not be found, <br />The quiet now enhances dark, the night has smitten light, <br />Until the dawn and light returns, things just won't seem right. <br /> <br />Then comes the dawn and light returns, we now see what was lost, <br />And we will see another day, but dawn will be the cost, <br />Yet only dawn will bring new light, that is natures precept, <br />While sunrise starts another day, awaiting the new sunset.<br /><br />Daniel Lloyd Kennedy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-view-of-sunset/
