Poem: The Sun is Pleased – 29/11/19

 The sun beams down upon me:
 he is happy with me today. 
 Sometimes he is disappointed,
 other times he may be sorely dismayed.
  
 But I can tell from his 
 loving warmth which spreads
 upon my complexion 
 that today he is pleased with me,
 and the steps I am undertaking in my life
 to cause positive action. 
  
 I am able to draw upon experiences which, 
 though once painful and caused 
 such internal suffering,
 can now be turned into something positive,
 as though to say,
  
 “Look where I came from, 
 and where I have been,” 
  
 then the comparison of what is fruitful and kind, 
 and what I have become,
 why, I’ve become myself again:
 from previous terrors there is 
 no need to run and hide. 
  
 The illness, the illnesses, 
 the secondary causes, 
 the uncontrollable sense of living,
 it was in no way assured.
  
 I lived flighty, in soaring delusional heights,
 I didn’t know what I was doing,
 only wished for worlds to explore
 and as I crashed and burned many a-time,
 faux pas and mental instability a-plenty,
 I wonder now,
 how it is that I am still here,
 alive,
 writing line upon line. 
  
 But I have healed from the brokenness,
 the fragility,
 the shattered scenes,
 and here I am, 
 living freely and openly breathing.
  
 I am here, 
 and I will take each opportunity as wholly mine,
 there is no need,
 no reasoning,
 to falter again,
 or trip down the line. 
  
 The sun twinkles in the corner of my eye,
 I think I see him wink. 
 I now know for certain that he is inextricably pleased.
  
 © 2019 Lauren M. Hancock 
also known as Alice Well. All rights reserved. 

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