The sunrise at home was beautiful today
I started to take a photograph and share it with you
Its orange waves stroked with clouds of violet and gray
amber hues radiating
almost hurting my eyes
I wanted to capture it and send it to you to enjoy
Post it for you
but the photo would have failed
us
what a photo cannot capture is all of that sunrise
on that day at that place
it can’t capture the chill in the air
the crispness of entering a morning with a body rested and a mind alert
the burgeoning day
cannot help you see
the hope that stood before me
the grief that weighed within me
the work that had to be done
that somehow was captured and held still in that moment at the site of that evoking orb
so I did not take a photo
I wrote these words
And
I did not share them with you because
there is no longer a you
to share with this view