Sun

Poem © 2016 by Joyce Mason

The genetic dice rolled darkness,

a sensitive artsy raw-nerve daughter.

But Nature, abhorring a vacuum,

drenched me with sunlight to balance

a tendency to brood:

My Father, My Sun.

Reborn three weeks later

in the courthouse,

You and Mom petitioned to be

my parents:

Sun, Moon and Neptune conjunct

in Libra

Symbols of the scales of balance

everywhere:

My Father, My Sun.

You won the draw of the straw.

You gave me all my names.

“I love your name because it has joy in it.”

My husband, like my father, with their Leo Lights:

My Father and Husband, My Sun.

I still tend to live with drapes closed

and love the night.

He loves skylights and curtainless windows.

My Husband, shades of My Father, My Sun.

My Husband, no better father to our fur children

even looks like My Father.

One gone, one remains bringing Sun to my days.

I am even starting to love the dawn.

My Father, My Husband, My Sun.

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