Monday, December 21, 2009

Advent Calendar 21 December 2009

Winter Solstice.

It is pouring rain today; a good day to make the Northern Hemisphere's shortest day of the year feel even shorter; a good day to celebrate light and the Light coming into the world.


You can try to strangle light:

use your hands and think

you’ve found the throat of it,

but you haven’t.

You could use a rope or a garrote

or a telephone cord,

but the light, amorphous, implacable

will make a fool of you in the end.


You could make it your mission

to shut it out forever,

to crouch in the dark,

the blinds pulled tight –


still, in the morning,

a gleaming little ray will betray you, poking

its optimistic finger

through a corner of the blind,

and then more light,

clever, nervy, impossible,

spilling out from the crevices

warming the shade.


This is the stubborn sun,

choosing to rise,

like it did yesterday,

like it will tomorrow.

You have nothing to do with it.

The sun makes its own history;

Light has it way.

~ Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno

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