Sunset Silhouettes

The sun will close its books on a day like any otherround up its warmth and retracts the lights to feed anotherin degrees it recedes, slipping in, out, and aboutthe flaming orangey clouds half-dipped in the horizona dazzling hopelessness courts the nightThe sun will close its books on a day like any otherbut can it account for the slumped lone silhouettefaceless beauty that hovers in its foregroundmatching its sadness with the splendid sunseta dazzling hopelessness encamps the soulthe 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.