Please Accept this Burning Sun

In the still center of your despair

Jackie Olsen
Rainbow Salad
May 25, 2022

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red hot embers
Photo by Tolga Ahmetler on Unsplash

find me, holding your pain gently, but firmly

lending light to your darkness in

a small, intense point.

If you can, in your urgent gravity, look to me

focus your vision

let that still center expand, let it grow

if you can, or if not

let me simply burn incandescent inside you

let me simply be with you.

I want only that which protects

only resilience, only strength

that fire I want to keep, small and bright

a guide toward help, toward hope

toward love, a beacon

always toward love, love.

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Jackie Olsen
Rainbow Salad

Come for the insights on aging, leave with a doggie bag full of frogs and exoplanets. Now more poems about vacuuming! she/her/hers