Evening...

It had almost happened so smoothly that one would have to strain to notice it. Late evening had faded into the semi-darkness of the dusk. The light was very low, just little to suggest that the sun somewhere down the horizon, had perhaps stopped for a while, confused and lost as it looked for its lost path.

A few red streaks across the sky went well with the shadows of the clouds. A lone star somewhere shone. I was left alone, watching this as I sat on a rocky outgrowth of the little hill. Above me now and then, a few parakeets would fly, excitedly calling out, announcing that they were on the path to home.

Light faded a little more. All the colours were now gone save for the redness of the skies. Everything now looked either gray or black. It would soon be night, the end of another day.

The sun accepted it, the stars accepted it, the birds and the animals too accepted it. Even the little breeze changed itself to go well with the dusk. But all across the horizon, little lights went up, we were still trying to continue the day farther into the night, while the rest of the world accepted that it was time to rest.

I moved back homewards.

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