Poetry - Sunflower

Hello beautiful souls.

Welcome to my heart.

This is my reading of my poem Sunflower.

I write poetry to make sense of, express, and capture how I feel, in any given experience, as I make my way through this life.

Some of the things I experience in life can be very hard to logically explain, but poetry doesn't, and has never, needed to be logical.

What my poetry means to me may be very different to what it means to you. Such is the beauty of art.

I hope it touches you, in the way you need to be touched, in this very moment.

From my heart to yours.

Namaste.

Transcript

I see it in your eyes,

In the vacant stare.

I feel it when I hold you,

In the heaviness of your bones.

You don't want to be here anymore.

I whisper,

Stay.

As I stroke your hair,

The world beat you down,

Over and over and over again.

All you feel is pain,

Like a sunflower.

Without the sun,

I am watching you wither and die.

And I'm scared.

I'm scared to leave you alone,

Afraid of what you might do.

So,

I stay.

I hold you.

And I pour as much love as I can from my cup into yours.

And you weep,

And weep,

And weep.

All the uncried tears from years of torment,

Unleashed,

Cascading down your face,

To be seen in your pain,

And to be held in it.

To be allowed to feel it all,

With no judgement.

Something shifts within you.

This is all you needed.

And all those times you didn't receive it,

Weighed too heavy on your soul.

You stand up,

And like a sunflower in spring,

You turn your face towards the sun.