Sunrise

I wrote this over 20 years ago, sitting on Wrightsville Beach North Carolina.

Sunrise
Athena C. Allen

The anticipation of my performance fills hearts with a joyous wondering
Imagining what I will look when I finally come up and embrace each one with the warm touch of my beam
It brings smiles to faces when I color the oceans a vibrant blue
The Mountains a luscious green
And the meadows pale wheat yellow
As I come up over the horizon my arms of gold and amber help others to hold the beauty inside
When I color the entire world for God’s blessed nature I am energized to grow and nurture all that has been given
I am the calmness of the sea
I can touch great continents with a single beam
I can be so many things
But most of all I can enrich the lives of God’s children
After all it is for them that I rise each day