Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Long Live the Sun

Long Live the Sun


The Sun is dead!


Its subjects, now hapless,
we scour the Earth
for daybreak or twilight.
Long live the Sun.


Long live the people
who worshipped the sun,
foliage spoiled.
Long live the Sun.


Long live the seas,
the plants, the animals
cultivated by fools.
Long live the sun.


So live us, the Many,
blindly taking for granted
what is so freely given.
Long live the Sun.


Warmed, gifted, and bathed
in an unpromised light,
short, we are destined.
Long live the Sun!

1 comment:

  1. I greet the sun in the morning like an old friend. She smiles down at me. We discuss the day.

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