SUNLIGHT

[It's been a while, huh? Hi. Hello. I've missed you.]

Its news to no one that sunlight is happy light -

Cheerful and always grinning so bright.

And everyone knows that Sunday-morning-sunlight wins every contest –

                The happiest, the cheeriest, the absolute best.

I think you might’ve been made with a bit of that special sunshine;

                Perhaps some was left over after emptying the jar onto the skyline.

“Oh look, we’ve got some extra today”, they must’ve said.

“How about we just pour it into this tiny person instead!”

And maybe that’s why it’s hard to look at you sometimes;

                When you dazzle so bright, it’s all that sunshine leaking from the inside.

And maybe that’s how you manage to warm me up from through the phone;

                Sunlight travels through nothing and everything quite well, you know.

And so you came to be that sunny ruler I happen to carry around,

                The one I hold to the world and measure everyone up against now.

And it’s a bit of a fix, you see - a perfectly horrible quandary;

                Because the one who falls the farthest short, is me.