Today is the Day

Today is the day,

The first time in many months I feel it.

It radiates through me -

A tidal wave of warmth

My pale pigment now kissed with vitamin D

It feels as if it flowers bloom on my skin

And I will be marked with their petals.

Freckle marked forever

Like seeds over the newly ploughed land

So my soul begins to sprout.

The green vein rises higher and higher

Reaching for that which made it grow

I will never be able to wax lyrical

Never a Wordsworth, nor a Frost

Just a man who appreciates the world

For all it can be