Your ache splits the rays of sunshine
Scatters the light through the clouds
Drenching the days with dreams raining down
Just to rise again with the heat of your heart
In songs of birds, in the flapping of their wings
Your love story carries on—
The beating wind, leaves lush and eager
Spinning through the air to the ground
Softening your path as you search
Thrusting your hands upwards to the hushed sky
You feel him now, a timeless canopy —
In fields you dance with the fireflies
Shelley Smithson is an emerging poet, writing for the love of expressing emotions in the form of images and phrases. She is a psychotherapist in her professional life and loves being in nature with family and friends. She relishes beating her husband at cribbage and likes dark cloudy days as much as the sunshine days of her home town of Elk Rapids, MI.