Late Morning

A day is not a day without a morning
But morning need not come before the noon;
A time to sit, relax, and take in warning
Of everything that's going to happen soon.
Morning can come at 3pm, or later,
And need not end before the night has come;
It need not end before the day's equator,
Nor should noontide enforce it to succumb.
Rather, the day, whenever it may start
Needs preparation, and we call that time
The morning. Thus identified as part
Of every day, it needs no clock to chime
To tell us when it is, or when it ends:
Its termination on our needs depends.