A sensual, changing relationship with the sun and its seasons |
SOLILOQUY Blaze, burn bright, and blaze, Cast the light that pierces my waking mind's dull haze, Your immense power never ceases to amaze. Mere mortals all your season through Curse, pray, celebrate, and plead to you In your prime you hear them all Revelers, sufferers alike, but you heed not their call. Painters set their easels early to catch your glow Capturing on canvas that elusive light, that effusive flow They place you in the center of skies blinding blue Gathering immortality for them and some, unneeded, for you Schoolchildren scribble essays of you, this poet pens a verse Astronomers call you a star, unique to this universe. The past season too, you reigned supreme Hitting vast realms with your merciless beam Changing green to ashes, wielding your rays like lashes Tiniest water dead, and the earth marked with gashes. In other climes, you bathed the sea and shore So we played and swam, begged for an hour more At times you obliged, caressed and warmed bodies by the score As you have ever done for all those who came before. We knew of course, of tomorrow The shorter days marking for some a growing sorrow While others on the ground gasped for a release. But willfully deaf to both our and their pleas You made your own plans, you gathered your keys A transient in the palace of the skies, you ceded your lease And began to leave sooner, dusk swiftly unfolding crease by crease. Some grieve, others rejoice at this time's end And while everything cannot be as we intend, We march forward after we bid you farewell, Welcome the rains, breathe deeply of soaked earth's smell, And smile at the new colors of leaves in the familiar dell. For we know you are not truly gone Each night you sink, but in the east you are reborn At the table of the seasons, your place is always set For now the clouds and the stars have you in their woven net But when spring comes, the harsh debts of winter met I pray God to have mercy on my sol For you to reappear, still fiery, strong and whole. 3 |