What color was that?

That western sky tonight
What color was that?
Purple? Orange?
It was both and neither.

My city on the bay
was bathed in this glow,
Purange? Orple?
There is not a word for it.

There is a beauty and a power
That cannot be seen in photographs
I once had a friend who tried to capture it
In photo after photo.

"Here's a picture of a sunset,"
he would say, "over Bellingham Bay."
"And here's a picture of another sunset,
I think I took this one the next day."

Dozens upon dozens, until
I mocked him silent.
"Here's a photo of a photo
of a sunset," I said, cutely.

Now I regret my cynical taunt.
Now I wish for his success.
Keep trying, Corey!
Never stop.