Today’s Harvest
In these high summer days,
light shines on life before me,
enters my body, to heal
and transform. Light rules
and tickles my senses.
Basil is ready to harvest
for pesto. A deep red
cherry tomato catches my eye
then pops in my mouth.
Darkness is late in coming.
Sunset arrives to say, rest.
Tomorrow, I will rise again,
into the light.
“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”
-Toni Morrison
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
-Og Mandino
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”
-C. Day Lewis