Fireworks

I do so enjoy 
this time of day 
these last few hours 
of the long night 
of twinkling far off 
street lights of the 
darkest of dark skies 
of this deep dense 
thick and unyielding black 
I am an onlooker 
awaiting like reveling children 
on our Independence Day 
for the skies to 
open in an explosion 
of this new day