A Beauty Such As The Sky

• Mariska Laas, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2013

The sky is an artwork of magnificent design.
It is a canvas of Gods beauty displayed.
So many colours pass through every day,
how can one say,
blue is the colour is will always stay?

Grey in the morning as the day is dawning,
placid silver unable to reflect the sun.
Gold in arrival of the star, so bright
and so close, that we called it our own.
So many hues and shades of blue
that filter through the sky like water or paint,
changing from one to another that blue,
isn’t enough to express the beauty
of the many colours but still all the one.
Red in the evening as our star starts to leave.
Brilliant and bold, as if the sun had set the horizon on fire.
Purple like a bruise after the pressure of the day
and finally black, empty of the colour that we so desired,
that God poked holes through the canvas.
So that as we sleep the songs of the angles,
would reach us in our dreams.