Some Things Are too Bright for Close Inspection

What's to be done

with those things in the world

too brilliant for close inspection?

Flowers are like that sometimes,

defying the keenest observer to discover

where one petal ends and another begins,

repelling with unrelenting, blinding brightness

everything, 

including those flies with a thousand eyes.

Even honeybees and hummingbirds

stay back from too much glory.

Ask Daedalus; he knows.