HORIZON

This post was written for Five Minute Friday

Word prompt--HORIZON

Five minutes to free-write about it

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This morning I was up before dawn (a very rare occurrence) and was looking forward to seeing the sun rise. 

Every couple of minutes I looked out the window towards the eastern horizon at the spot between the trees where it can be seen as it rises.

Slowly the dark of night started to fade, and as the sky got lighter, there was a bit of yellow at the horizon that seemed to herald the sun's imminent arrival, but that was it. No reds, no oranges, no rising sun--even after the darkness had turned to light.

And then somethiing caught my eye, quite a bit to the left of the spot on the horizon that I had been checking on, and for a moment I thought the sun was rising in a different spot, but that could not be. 

It wasn't. What I was seeing was the sun's reflection as it shone on the side of a building across the way. 

How did I miss seeing it rise, and where was it shining from? It couldn't have gotten so high in the sky so fast that it was no longer visible from my window. A mystery it will remain.