The Sun Is Everything Today
For Leyla Navab
After a line by Raymond Ridley
The sun is everything today,
.
causing us wild flowers to lift our heads
after yesterday’s wind bent us double (to the ground)
and we could hardly stand (against it)
.
The sun is everything today,
after yesterday’s rain poured down
so much we did not want
a further drop (this bitter cup)
.
The sun is everything today;
this rain so heavy even the clay
bows under its force collapsing
to the lowest point (burying us too)
.
The sun is everything today;
we wild flowers that remain (behind)
remember the warmth of your smile,
your touch, your radiant brilliance
.
that made us lift our heads (to you)
(to remember our particular beauty)
to follow
your every move across our skies
.
Please rise. Please rise
again. I cannot,
will not, wont not see
a sky without your face.
.
.
Kristen Baum DeBeasi is a composer, writer and poet. Her writing includes works of fiction, articles about film music and poetry, which has been published in Blue Heron Review, Voice of Eve and Contrary Magazine.
Photo credit: This photo, taken by Joseph S. DeBeasi is of Kristen Baum DeBeasi as “Messenger of Spring” with Jonquils, make-up and headdress by the late Persian artist and dear friend Leyla Navab, for whom this poem was written.
