BLUE HOUR

By: Allen Floro Zachariah P. Ventura

It’s not an hour, maybe even a minute.

Just before dawn, there’s a minute of silence.
When the day birds aren’t up yet and the night birds are fast asleep,
then, there’s real silence.

It doesn't happen every morning,

two or three times in the summer, whenever the sky is clear.
It’s hard to describe it to someone who hasn’t known nor experienced it.

But when nature’s totally silent, it’s a bit scary,

it feels just like a classroom during an examination.
It’s either life or death. If the end of the world does ever come,
for sure it’ll be during that moment. Want to know why?
It’s the only time you feel nature holding its breath; it’s very scary.