Light answers light —
the brightness multiplies

Heat is not the same:
heat flows towards cold —
the same desire perhaps
but different mode

Heat spreads its blanket out
towards all who seek it,
cooling down with distance,
still too generous to hoard

We make heat inside —
we make it from our substance,
from our thoughts.
We feel and feed the small fire
that warms like coals
somewhere behind our hearts

So we come to know
the essence of this gift,
the little inner furnace
by which we recognize the sun.

©Wendy Mulhern
March 3, 2015

photo by Eric Mulhern