look toward the sun

take in its beautiful warmth

soak up its radiant life

count all the vanishing spots

in your eyes as you look away

for they are the lives you

have lived

the friends you have lost

the loved ones dead and gone

they arereaching out to you

in the blinding warmth

of the sun light

their hands brush your face

as the wind

wisks them by

and only for a second

they are yours again

yours to hold

yours to love

in the fleeting

shimmering spots.