I Saw The Midnight Sky Change:  No Greater Cause
Stephen Sandoval, NYC
May 26, 2006

I peered into the night sky and I caught a shooting star.
Below the horizon that shooting star fell and the sky illuminated as I'd never seen.
Explosive orchestra and I was searching in vain really deep in my soul for the words.
My words could only attempt to describe my emotion at that time.

That day I resolved to paint the emotion of this scene someday.
If I should succeed in painting the raw feeling of that night,
I should paint the greatest painting of my life.
These pigments in my soul can possess no greater cause for me.

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