Nighttime

• Samantha Fist, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2009

The sun slowly sinks behind the horizon, disappearing with a final wink.

Dusk sweeps across the skyline, like a black shadow shrouding your vision.

The world slips into a dark abyss, home to the lurking wolf.

He tilts his head and howls to the sky, his cry shattering into the piercing lights of millions of stars.

And though the night seems dark and daunting, it brings with it one beauty to outshine all the others.

Here in place of the glorious sun, the dazzling stars dance around the hypnotic moon, banishing all fears of the nighttime.