Sun/Love

Another cactus

Do not dare meet the gaze

That would redden flesh

And blind the eye

Unwisely found unhid.

I have met hatred

And stared it down,

Nakedly awaiting

Its setting eyelids

To quench its will.

Do not meet the Sun nude.

His passion will burn

The unhumble

To dead carbon coal stone

That flickers at night

In mockery.