eyes wide open !

The first shot of caffeine was just a wake up call. Drooping eyelids just added to my melancholy as it began to pour outside. I grabbed a newspaper and rushed toward the car door and didn't even bother to look around. As I hit the main road, my heart sank so deep that I gasped for every breath. A jaw-dropping view of the sunset in the mirror blinded me. Moments before disappearing below the horizon, the sun had torn through the miserable clouds. That end of the sky was simply... The fading twilight had mixed with the greyness of the sky to result in a texture so pure that I just gazed with my eyes wide open. My subconscious had taken over the driving and I just kept staring at the mirror for as long as I could. I was so dumbstruck by the golden hue that the 270 degree rainbow in front of me looked ordinary. The symbolism grasped me so hard that it almost suffocated me. The bright horizon was my "stairway to heaven", gleaming with hope and I was driving away from it, moving into the rainbow that stood like the arch of gloom, welcoming me with corroded hands, past memories and what not ! And then, just like that, everything turned grey and it was all over. I felt the glare from the green of the traffic lights and as my pupils constricted, I returned to reality !