Sun kissed

Today I felt the soul’s celebration

As warm morning sun

Kissed my skin through the living room window

Out in the fresh air

Icy frost turns to water

As I wash the banisters clean

My heart lifts with the possibility

Of new life returning to me

After all the travails through

Loss and hardship

Hurt and pain

I am always surprised to find myself

Here again

Alive in sunlight

After storms and rain have blown away

My fear and insecurity

Of never being fully loved

For the whole of me

This my love is the most precious of gifts

You have given to me

I do not take it lightly

And as I feel the sun’s kisses

I know even without you here

I have enough

And I remember how

Very very lucky

I am to not only to be alive

But to have survived

All that I have seen

For truly when we no longer see

Through a glass so darkly

Life and light and sunshine

Appear to be

The truest miracles