Some things (and places) are worth the hype

 
Human-made wonders
 can be hit and miss
  when it comes to the awe department,
   but nature never disappoints.
And human nature,
 when at its rare best
  can be truly extraordinary.
 
To see night fall within seconds
 under a blazing crown,
  and day return just as fast –
truly worthy of all the glory,
 and others will write of it
  more eloquently than I.
 
But  
to witness it with thousands
  who have sat cramped in cars for hours
through towns where “traffic” means  
  three cars at the four-way stop,
when bladders are stretched to capacity
  and the sandwich shop runs out of bread
and to never  
  once  
    hear
a honking horn
a crying child
an angry voice
or a belligerent customer –
 
this may be rarer than any eclipse.
 
 
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