The Blinding Sun

The Blinding Sun


Dark is the safest place to hide
from your mirror images, not one, but many,
when they blind you with an intensity you had spent
your years
in dissipating
and eluding.
But the dark passages are not so dark
as to diminish their intensity.
The blinding sun is the only cover--
no hiding, unabashed exposure,
the heat wave of a cloud;
it can evaporate the seas into a sky.
It takes a small effort
to step out into the sun,
the blinding sun.
Step out into the blinding sun.
It is no mirror,
no images there,
neither you nor me;
call it annihilation,
or call it peace.