Sun & Steel

Golden sunlight flows across cold steel,
surging like a flood of molten fire
over a towering stairway that might have belonged to a giant.
Scintillating rays dazzle and glow,
igniting glass and steel in an inferno
that lasts for an infinite moment.
Gray morning haze creeps across the sky
like a cat stalking its prey,
shrouding the sun with a cloudy veil.
As the traffic light’s emerald eye winks,
cars stream into asphalt rivers,
moving on to more mundane places.