The sun will close its books on a day like any other round up its warmth and retracts the lights to feed another in degrees it recedes, slipping in, out, and about the flaming orangey clouds half-dipped in the horizon a dazzling hopelessness courts the night The sun will close its books on a day like any other but can it account for the slumped lone silhouette faceless beauty that hovers in its foreground matching its sadness with the splendid sunset a dazzling hopelessness encamps the soul the final charm of a dying day. Sunset Silhouettes is Linda Adede Ongola's debut poetry anthology which features a hundred poems written mostly in free verse and of the confessional genre. It covers themes of mental health, theodicy, love, betrayal, and corruption among other social concerns

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