The recent adventures of Sunlight and Dawn

  They rose over the mountain tops to the usual scene. Houses just beginning to wake, smoking chimneys. The cold ground gleaming up at them.
  "This is as far as I go" spoke Dawn. "I shall await your return on the morrow."
  The Sunlight peeked over the mountain tops one last time before saying goodbye to his old friend (they were quite as old as friends could be) and leaping into the valley below.
When you are so grand and so large as Sunlight is you can make quite a stir in the world. Far beneath the insect-like hive of people began to move about as if something were hounding them. They started frying eggs and steering automobiles to the farthest corners of the Earth. Sunlight counted his influence as primary in their motivations. Surely his daily travel over their little township was quite the most remarkable thing that happened there. Many would say it was.
  By noon-time people started to settle in with his bright demeanor. Sunlight happily reached his highest point to look down at those who pleasantly stopped their hustle and bustle for a spot of lunch. They were in the midst of enjoying him with only small breaks by impudent clouds who dared stare between. The clouds were beyond his touch, though. They were consequence for deeds past done and pools past warmed. He stared at them sorrowfully who shadowed his gaze and influence. All they could do to that which was so dear to him. Sooner or later, like all mortal things, they would fall and he would strike again. And, again they would rise to taunt him in their petty way.
   Soon the time for descent was upon our friend, the Sunlight. He dove for the far horizon now, tiring quickly. He needed rest from this languid scene of work and play. The children were just running from their school houses begging him to stay a bit longer; grasping at whatever fragments of day that remained, but it was too late. His dive that began slowly sped and sped until the last evening rays of his power shot through windows and he could see books being read and workers rise and stretch as closing time approached. Still now he tired and tired, his eyes red with fatigue, but his face golden with the efforts of warming an entire world.  
  Somewhere else he was just stirring life that offered new sights and new sounds. And there, at horizon's end, was his good friend Dawn to waiting to greet him again.