Turning of the Night

As one awakens in the dark of the night, after the pause of disorientation, and without knowledge of the time, there is a feeling not of the dark from the light, or the darkness in the various moods we bring to it, and feel from it, the darkness, from the darkness;

but an awareness that the night of the day just passed is over, and the night of the day not yet come has already begun, an excitement of the unknown, a participation in the future, a thread of time alive in the darkness;