The only time that I ever find it convenient to enjoy a good sunrise is when I've been up all night, because there is no way I would voluntarily wake up in time to see a sunrise on my own. For this reason I find that sunrises are more enjoyable than sunsets, just because they are the most rare for me to see. If I were ever forced to rise from a good night's sleep in time to catch the sun come up, I would squint at it through bleary eyes, say "Oh, that's nice," and get on with the business that got me up so friggin' early. However, if I've been up until 6:30 in the morning for whatever reason, psychedelic drugs, a game of Monopoly that just lasted way beyond its natural life, raving all night, I seek out the rising sun with eyes wide with wonder/dilated pupils/sleep deprivation (many of the times it's a cocktail) and gaze in awe at such a pure sight. The sunrise is just more special when you've been conscious for 10 or so hours of darkness to get to it.

Alone, or at least, alone with only the people who are like you. Sheltered with friends, wide-eyed, drooping-eyed, laughing, dancing, sighing friends. Sitting on a hill or a rooftop or the beach. A wide view of the world and everything in it.

It is beautiful.

Beautiful like the world cannot contain. Beautiful as you have never seen before. That sit-down-happy feeling, the one that doesn't make you want to get up and dance, but instead you want to sink down into it.

A laugh, a shiver. He pulls her towards him and you sit alone or leaning against a friend or maybe you are the italics lost in a moment. You sink down into the feelings and watch as the clouds change shape and color. The crinkles of shadow are changing, they are coming into being again.

Love happy pretty beautiful. It takes too long, it is over too quickly. That initial gasp as the brightness comes in an instant: now no, now yes. A blink and the sun is blinking back.

Tired eyes nearly closing and skin comfortable against yours. A night shared together and now this wonder is rising up before you. It, the sun, he is Apollo, a phoenix, this happens only once every day but this is today and this sunrise is everything and it is yours and it is every sunrise in the whole world and it is right now.

Stay up one night, all night, just to watch a new day start.