DAYBREAK

The day is just beginning 

All soft and gray

My breath fogs the air 

The ground is hard 

The grass crunches beneath my feet 

The clouds hang low

Pulled like cotton candy 

Across the sky

Then I see it

Pearly pink and orange 

Just tipping the horizon 

Beginning to spread 

A watercolor sky at first 

Then golden shafts 

Spread like honey 

As the sun peeps over the horizon 

Painting the East in glorious hues

Then climbing higher 

It sets the sky ablaze 

In a riot of radiant color 

Janice Kuykendall