Muted grey flooded my eyes and enveloped the world in

shades of darkness until the moment the sun flared across the sky

and its lioness yellows and savannah oranges shone on the little patch of earth you stood on.

Darlin’, I ain’t never seen a southern sky light up like it does above you,

stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mason-Dixon.

And the greys melted away in flashes of pink and blue and purple.

The galaxy around me became watercolor, melted pastels, swirling

into tornadoes of green and magenta oceans into a masterpiece.

Man, God sure knew what He was doing when He brought light into the world.