My winter solstice poem / meditation for all of you dear DUers

Be the Dark

Be still.

Be the dark.

Be the breath of night.

Be silence.


Turn inward.

Be your own breath.

Feel your own dark.

Hear it whispering.


Listen.

What does it say?

What does it say?

What is it saying to you?

Listen.


Hear.

Hear the voice of the dark.


Feel.

Feel the breath of night.

Feel the cold of night.

Feel yourself at the center of a universe

that spins and flows around you.

Feel your smallness.

Feel yourself a singular pulse of energy

racing among stars and galaxies.

Feel.


Sleep.

Sleep breathing deeply.

Sleep safe in the arms of night.

Sleep, growing warm and gentle, like animals

that dream winter dreams

in secret caves.

Sleep.


Dream.

Dream the dreams of stars.

Dream the dreams of the sleeping Earth.

Dream of your earthly body.

Dream of dancing.


Feel.

Feel the stirring.

Feel your soft breathing quicken.

Feel a spark kindle.


Change.

Turn.

Feel.


Wake.

Wake to the lessening dark.

Wake to your heart beating with anticipation.

Wake, stand, stretching your earthly body.

Wake, and see light.

Wake.


See.

See the first gleam.

See incandescence.

See the sun transfigure what was dark

into day.

See it light Earth's body, your body, your blessed spark,

illuminating all.

Dance.

Rejoice.

Be.


(A.S. - December 21, 2022)