to be like the SUN

‘Your picture is smaller than my hand, and a sunflower seed is smaller than a word, but I remember: you were taller than everyone. When the winter sky shivers with icy stars, I remember how hard you worked, to be like the sun.’ – to be like the SUN, by Susan Marie Swanson & Margaret Chodos-Irvine.

I love sunflowers, don’t you?