fregley gazes upon the stream and the woods

[lux lisbon]

xxxI remember the bright blue that glazed over that morning and took my mind by surprise. I felt that it was a sin to have kept my eyes closed for so long in the beautiful sun that was protecting all of us from what could have been. I thought long and hard about the sun reprimanding me for what I had done to her, and I thought about how she could have tortured me or submitted me to an eternity of her heat, but instead she chose only to take something from me that I had always taken for granted, just like I had taken her as such. You might not see the sun as a being who cares about folks like me and anyone else, but as it turns out, she is much more of an empath than any of us will ever be.