Sunflower

By Aayra Singh

To the sunflower glowing so bright, you've been the sugar to my bitter coffee days, the lo-fi music to my gloomy nights and a piping hot cup of tea to my rainy evenings. Every time I have been at my lowest, I have thought of you and felt rays of hope tingling their way from my mind to my toes, un-numbing the whole of me. The sole feeling of you somewhere out there takes me to a silent corner in a mystifying library filled with words unread and pages untouched. Your yellow petals wrap me up in warmth extinguishing the burning anxiety maddening me up for days, you heal me. I imagine you swaying happily in your field of joy as the rainbow arches behind the clouds and every single atom of my body melts into a smile. You are my happy place.

By Aayra Singh