Your Rainbow Halo

Fireflies were scattered across your face back when
Lighting up rooms that otherwise sat in darkness then.
Though those lightning bugs couldn't compare to that brilliant smile.
It would hide behind friends, parents and teachers for a while.
But when I caught a glimpse of those grinning lips,
It spread like sunlight, ending the eclipse.

A rainbow halo surrounds this brilliant light.
Melting the dark clouds hiding from sight.
One word would start a wildfire in my soul.
My wasteland of a heart becomes whole.
Those fireflies now flitter through my veins.
Filling up my clouds and evaporating the rain.

You've sown sunflower seeds in seeping hearts.
And taught them to glow bright from within.
Sometimes I worry
You'll waste your last ones on me.
But it's been years,
It appears,
The flowers grow swift as the tempest.
You've grown them in your heart,
And your love has proved endless.

Your sunflower heart
Blooming rainbows in the dark.