Night and Day

I think I prefer the night to the day-the dark to the light

It’s the sense of mystery, the stillness

Things are moving the same speed at night, but it seems like nothings moving at all, everything’s still

The street is empty but the shadows of the trees dance on the ground beneath

An odd contrast-movement in stillness

Listening to ten thousand leaves making noise in the wind

You have no sense of time at night until you’ve been up too late and realise ‘oh no, it’s morning, time to get to bed’

Its night-its dark, you can’t tell what time of night it is, you can’t even read your watch

But in the day, you just see the sun, and you know.

Follow it across the sky and you can guess the hour, knowing exactly how long is left

I never like to know such things, I don’t want to know when my movie is going to end or how many pages I have left to turn- it’s that feeling that something good will never end

The day is always ending and you have the night to look forward too.

The night never really ends if you go to bed and wake a fresh in the morning anyway, you just woke up and it was gone, it didn’t end.

Cycling bikes or running free. We go faster than we ever have when we sprint in the dark and it feels like we’re riding on air when we can’t see the ground.

We have the world to ourselves, no people to stop our stride or cars to kill our speed

Winter or summer-the sun goes down but I don’t feel the cold like I do when it’s up.

The dark night makes me not feel the cold which I dread to feel in the morning

You’ll never see things the same as you see them at night.

New colours are made; a strange sepia, hints of orange off those street lights.

Whereas you can see everything in the day-only the brightest things shine out in the dark-the light from inside a train’s windows shoot across the dark on a rail bridge far away.

You don’t know what’s there in the dark; your imagination goes wild.

Are children afraid of the monsters that will come out from under the bed first thing in the morning, or the monsters that lurk in the dark at night?

Things go bump in the night, but only make a noise in the day.

We see things we can only imagine once we are in the dark, it’s those tricks again.

It’s always a treat to stay up late at night when you’re a child but a chore to get up in the morning

Excited to stay up and wait for Father Christmas or to see the New Year come in. Stay up and watch the exciting TV.

The night time is where we stay up late talking on the phone to the ones we can’t be with

It’s where we stay up later that we should of wrestling under covers and playing games in the dark.

It’s the moments we remember most.

We save the best things for the night time; the whole world works in the day so they can play at night

The night is where we dream, the day is where we think. The night is where we rest, the day is where we stress.

I like the night to the day, and that is a few reasons why.