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