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Love Poem: an Ode to the sun

Aliya Carter

You, an incarnation of Apollo,

are a gleaming gem of Solar incandescence.

I desire to bask in your cascading rays

to drink in your gentle warmth.

Wrap me in your sweet embrace;

String me up! A willing lyre

aching to be plucked.

Burn, I might—

but if the flames consume me?

Then I will live on as the smoke that follows.

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Last updated March 2023

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