always wondered why
the shade of the sun
is the same
for both the sunrise 
and the sunset

it's because there is a fluidity,
a volatile boundary
barely keeping the highs and the lows apart

one second the sky is light, hope lingers in the clouds and for once you feel free;

and the next, it's a slow fall and an inevitable one, and the last thing you see before closing your eyes was the way the darkness eagerly spilt in, as if it were lingering behind the curtain the whole time.

— n. u