Mar 2020
Sunshine is mine. It covers me
in warmth, soothes my spirits, wakes
me up. It signals a new day, a
bright, new day full of promise,
full of hope. I shall elope with my
good fortunes: no Sisyphean tasks,
no Stygian gloom. Sunshine pours
on me the propitious; this day will
be full of love and happiness. I
shall sing with the birds. I shall lie in
thick, green grass. I shall dance
with flowers, red and gold. I shall
bathe in a shower of sunshine. Bless
the heavens for this miraculous gift.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
in warmth, soothes my spirits, wakes
me up. It signals a new day, a
bright, new day full of promise,
full of hope. I shall elope with my
good fortunes: no Sisyphean tasks,
no Stygian gloom. Sunshine pours
on me the propitious; this day will
be full of love and happiness. I
shall sing with the birds. I shall lie in
thick, green grass. I shall dance
with flowers, red and gold. I shall
bathe in a shower of sunshine. Bless
the heavens for this miraculous gift.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
