The Morning Highlights

Though I had to set out from home early today,

And miss the morning news highlights,

The highlights came to me in another way,

With some unexpected insights.

My breaths glowed silver in the cold morning air,

While frosted spiderwebs glowed white everywhere,

And the horizon glowed red with the sun’s first light

Against the black shadow of the previous night.

As the sun’s red rays spread over the landscape,

The rooftops and treetops began to take shape;

Black shadows, red sunlight, silver breaths, and white frost,

And in only an hour, they all had been lost.

Though I did want to hear today’s headlines, surely,

I did get the news after all;

It was that I shouldn’t mind getting up early

Because the world is beautiful.