Winter-Warm

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy

Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry

Sunshine on the waters looks so lovely

Sunshine almost always makes me high…

-John Denver

  

Like clockwork every morning it wakes

rubbing its red rimmed eyes ;

arms outstretched across a golden-peach sky

Climbing out of bed,

It goes atrotting across the skies--

Knocking on sleepy windows

Flinging away the night

Prodding eyelids awake:

It’s a Good morning, World!

I bask in a pool of winter sunshine

Charging the batteries of my soul.

A curled up cat rests on my ledge;

Sun drops on each eyelid...

I have one more freckle on my cheek

Where the sun kissed me awake.

And when the day is done and fire slips into cold darkness,

stars loom up like emergency lights ; Keeping my soul's batteries aglow.

Just a little while more…before my sunshine comes aknocking at my window once more.