1 in the absence of your rays dear Sun the fearful created God
2 we trembled in our nights in the wild and you shattered the darkness and you said: ‘Behold, Creatures - Behold the Earth!’
3 I lie asleep and you send in beams of messengers dear Sun each with the same message: ‘Hey, lazybones – wakie! wakie!’
4 by you dear Sun is life; and through you too is death
5 O setting Sun do not drag my heart down with you; for it’s known in nations where you do not shine as often you ****** cheer and smiles away till you come again; do not let then my heart dear Sun sink with you
6 sun crazy sun very disobedient and ill-tempered unwilling to listen to shine not too hot and not scorch the earth; and show-off and bad-tempered with its flares
7 see the creatures of the earth burrow deep and go to sleep in your absence; and they come again kicking and hungry when you shine
8 I see you in the flower that blooms it seems at random; and I see you too in the leaves of the lilly-pilly at my window
9 one must see the sun or feel it oneself
10 I think you’re one hot blonde, O Sun babe; on this side of the universe no one’s as hot as you
11 the clouds try catching you; they are little children and they think you are a ball they can throw to one another
12 sometimes I wonder in the loneliness of night where you are and then I see you bouncing off the moon; ha! she rejects your advances
13 they look at the sun but do not know how to see; poets interpret it as children play with clouds and the holy ones attempt to squeeze the sun into their texts