i see you, that soul so full of light

that you just might burst,

yet mixed with contradictions

of experience and memory

that sometimes block the sun.

 

and while today is one of those

with shadow, still your inner

light, it vividly shines.

 

i see it in your smile,

in the tender ways you operate,

 

for you have learned the secret

that shadows always fade–just wait,

that light is monumentally  

greater than the dark,

 

and you grow in the direction

of where your focus lies.

 

you have learned from

the banana and flourish,

increasingly curving towards

the sun.

 

Heather Pound 2023

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