Sunglow

Bright against a dark sky      
             almost surreal
Sunglow is magical
          Immediately warming and
                      eyecatchingly attractive -
difficult to look away.
Sunglow is
absorbed and reflected
         all at once
making the autumn leaves
seem so alive when we know inside
            that they are anything but...
Sunglow makes you feel the
rust and amber and maple red
           it makes you feel the honey and
the oak brown and orange turning reds
      for as the sunglow casts its light
         perspective tends to shift.
Sunglow starts at dawn and ends at dusk
and everything inbetween
           it seeps and steeps into my soul
a golden glow within my heart.
       And when night casts out
          a dark blanket in the sky,
            It is sunglow sparkling down
                  as a million, twinkling stars-
Liquid light, flowing free
      the happy hum
           of feeling so alive.