As I stand at the footboard of the train waiting for my stop to arrive,
I close my eyes out of tiredness and exhaustion, to let them rest for a while,
Feeling the wind messing with my hair, the cool winter breeze having a calming effect,
As the train is on the bridge, i just open my eyes for a moment,
And in that moment, i look at the sky that is filled with a light orange hue, an effect of the sun setting,
Above the light orange is a fainter shade of yellow, so faint it seems as if it's transparent, followed by the light blue of the sky that stretches across the ends of the earth...
And on this winter night, the stars twinkle in the sky...
Nature has that calming and soothing effect on you...
In the span of a few minutes when I was gazing at the sky and the wonderful colors spread across, my tiredness was long forgotten and I felt a bit fresh, with renewed energy to get on and go home...
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Struggles & Smiles
PoetryThoughts about life and things that we learn, things that come our way and that life isn't always a bed of roses and all of us have our fair share of thorns to deal with.
