A Box - For You By Sabena Burkhart

A Box - For You

By Sabena Burkhart

I brought you a box here to see

Colored and dipped by the sun

To wash away those bad days

I promise you'll be as good as new

Go ahead, open it up!

It's nothing scary I promise

I got the sun to shade it for me

And the stars to get it glitz and glimmer

There, you see, just at the bottom

The moon gave me a piece of a star

So you can fall in love with the light

Even in the dark

You can use it so the best outshines the worst

For when you wish you could immerse yourself into the sky

And let the stars dance upon your skin

Now the moon trusts you to hold it's shine

 And one day he will illuminate you,

 placing you among the stars

There under the rubble, and powder from the sky

You can see an elegant shell

I clutched it where the sea jewels

Flood upon the shore

Deeply ingrained in the driftwood

I saw it's golden hue

Almost earthen and muted

I thought you can use it

To speak to when you're alone

To have something that will listen

To everything and more

Hopefully, you can mumble to the shell,

 the words that you fear 

If they left your mouth too much 

Your lips would fall in ruin

And the last sunflower
I plucked from the fields
While the sun made sure
I got the final golden one
It's petals stretched to the sky
They stirred the clouds
The smell so rich of sweet, sickly sweet
Cutting through the delicate scent of morning dew

Most flowers are delicate

Fragile and breakable

And yet this one

This very sunflower

Stands as strong as the oak tree

It is bright and careless

Reckless in the way in moves

Following the sun

Despite knowing 

She could wilt one day

She turns her petaled head

To always face the light

And I find it quite perfect

That it reminds me of you

The world is not ending

It was merely a bad day

But for when you think

The earth might crumble at your feet

Look within this box

And you'll realize

 You've been here before

Many times the world has ended around you

Yet you've pushed through.

 You turn and ignore it

Because deep inside you know 

All of the bad days will be gone

and everything will 

begin anew
in the morning.