Sunrise Separates the Night

fire above, lake below

Spokane, Washington — Photo by Jonathan Potter ⓒ 2024

Sunrise separates the night
from the day. And on this day
I'm driving away from the gray
with lightning and hail at my
back and the music of
the mysterious mountains

before me, the imprint of
the constantly changing dance
of light and dark and meaning and
chaos playing out like a
piano scroll made of 
dark pavement and painted lines

and rumble strips keeping me
in line. I repent of my
too harsh judgments of friends and loved
ones in this election year
even as I turn my
back on them to drive away.

I wish them well as I hold
my lover's hand and smile at
the golden glowing horizon
calmly racing towards me 
at the speed of music,
changing, changing, changing, changed.

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