npm2020: poetry videos day 15 "Solar-Powered Sun Puppet"

My National Poetry Month Project 2020 is to record a short video each day in April, presenting my published poems to poetry lovers of all ages.

Today's poem tries to capture just how powerfully the sun determines my mood and energy--and how low I go when it's cloudy and grey.  Are you like that too?

Solar-Powered Sun Puppet

the dark side of me

glowers inside

drags at the tips of my toes

it feeds on clouds

on rainy skies

and only my shadow knows:

how heavy

the day is

how low the horizon

how sodden

and sad

I am                   

then sweet sun punches a hole in the clouds

sizzles and swims in my eyes

my shadow spills out through a hole in my sole

my darker side hung out to dry

howbrilliantthedayis!

howhighthebluesky!

how sudden and mad I am!

I’m sunny side up

I’m pumped full of light 

my silhouette dances on walls

Now I can see clearly:

                           my dark doppelganger

                           freed by the sun's high call

my demon cast out, my shadow of doubt

is the shadow that shows that I am