MARIGOLD SUN

you took your heart and turned it then

toward the marigold sun

thinking you were the only one

who saw it as a flower

I saw myself you turned the dials

in blinding love for hours and hours

gazing from no summits then

with no heart at all to win

only thinking, feeling then how

beauty dazzled us all

what happened to our point of view

that beauty had enough to do

just in being

now the facts are in a row

we have reaped what others sowed

thinking all there was to know

surely they already knew

but I am younger now my friend

knowing that I'll face the end

still I gaze for hours and hours

upon the marigold sun.

mary angela douglas 23 november 2022