Sun in My Eyes This Morning
If the sun was better
at remembering sky
it'd be midday sooner.
But light is feeling
it's way around.
It's in my face,
on the rose,
like something too dumb to choose.
Sun's either lazy or an ass.
What's the point of
being hot as flame
when time's what fiddles
with the thermostat.
It burns the skin
before it makes it beautiful.
It kills the flower
because it just can't stop at red.
I've prepared a place for it
at the very peak of the heavens.
And still it's at this disagreeable angle,
dumbstruck by what it wakens.
- John Grey