The Snowflake Chronicles

Meditation on Sunset

The sunset behind Mount Charleston,
one day ends
as another begins
without fan-fair
or noisy celebration.

As the sunsets
the sky is transformed
from deep blue,
to pale blue,
to off white,
and then to black;
the sky is transformed peacefully
and calmly
from day
into night.

As the sunsets
behind Mount Charleston
the street lights come on
driving darkness outside
their pools of light,
shifts change,
people go home to rest,
but Las Vegas never sleeps.