The Sun

Don’t underestimate

The power of a kind word

Or a smile

A quick compliment

Or a little gift 

Because they could mean

A lifeboat to a drowning man

The North Star to a lost traveler

the sun on the cold frosty morning

water on a hot summer afternoon

It saves lives

Brightens a day

The sun comes out of the clouds

After the pouring rain

It saved mine

I hold it in my mind

Like a treasure box 

Full of loved items

And when the storm clouds roll

It brings out the rainbows 

And I remember

You remember too