Friday, January 12, 2024

Sunlight sets me off.

Sunlight sets me off.

It could burn you to a crisp,

Or drive you mad, before it killed you

With dehydration and/or heat exhaustion.

Yet even on a freezing day,

When pavements are punctuated

By static streaks of frozen water,

Sunlight sets me off,

Like coming up unexpectedly

On a wondrous consequence-free drug.

I’m high laughing and smiling

At silly ideas;

But, if and only if,

I’ve got somewhere warm to sit

And gaze through double glazing

At cold, cold sunlight outside.

 

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