(You) As A Radiant Sun

Roots have grown where my feet used to be

Vines have crept over my limbs and made a home of me

My fingers now clawed branches

ever reaching, for that vital light—

       Earth-bound, this one 

       Ever a subordinate (to you)—

                    the smiling Sun

Beneath this aged bark beats my red heart

Its hollow drums, solitary and echoing

This ancient love, alone yet growing—

         Expansive like the universe

         A love turned celestial

Time shall not uproot this divine tree

Only death shall hinder its basking eternity

              

Etched upon the skin of my mind

are memories of—

          That radiant mind,

          Warm, effusive and silent

           Once known

               never, never forgotten.