Sunset Silhouettes

The sun will close its books on a day like any other
round up its warmth and retracts the lights to feed another
in degrees it recedes, slipping in, out, and about
the flaming orangey clouds half-dipped in the horizon
a dazzling hopelessness courts the night
The sun will close its books on a day like any other
but can it account for the slumped lone silhouette
faceless beauty that hovers in its foreground
matching its sadness with the splendid sunset
a dazzling hopelessness encamps the soul
the final charm of a dying day.
Sunset Silhouettes is Linda Adede Ongola's debut poetry anthology which features a hundred poems written mostly in free verse and of the confessional genre. It covers themes of mental health, theodicy, love, betrayal, and corruption among other social concerns.