Sonrisa
Little puts a smile in my heart more than a sunrise. Whether
it’s one that I have woken early to watch or the one that meets me
on my early every-day drive to work, the sunrise is a pendulum swing
of time.
I look in the mirror and wonder at that same passage, as wrinkles
and greying hair have inched their way into my reflection. They are
my personal sunrises, and who could help but smile at them. And, that I
can smile or laugh at myself gives me the confidence to greet the world
as bravely as if I were the sun. I bring my little light to others, using
a smile, a laugh. I burn into a heart, casting shadows long and dark.
A sunrise and a smile, they wait for you.
(2008)
