Sitting Around
Listening, Watching
Hearing, Seeing
The song of birds,
The love of crickets.
Rushing water,
A slight burn in the air.
A cat crawls,
Thrugh the bush.
The dog sits,
Waiting on the next visitor.
Blue smoke rising from between my fingers,
The sun goes down.
The world comes to life then,
Like it can't in the day.
The rustling of bats,
The song of birds quickly dying.
Lights
Lights
Lights from bugs,
From passing cars,
Fly's go to sleep
Bee's wait for the light.
The darkness envelops,
and hugs us all.
We are the darkness,
We are the night.
Only then do we feel alive,
As the heat goes down,
The moon comes up.
And the rest of humanity
Sleeps...
Sleeps.
About the Creator
Antony Atkins
Author, Veteran, Father, Husband and Gamer, all in one. Where some people would be content with one or two, I have to run the gambit. Published on Amazon under Antony Mauro
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