Light and Heat

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