December darkness
Family stirs bright
In shortening days
The night is dark
As clouds cast rain
And find us hiding
In places we know
But never forget
Till June pulls us
Outside ourselves
Cast into summer
Serving the world
With endless joy
Or scalded feelings
Over wet clay roots
Of life then death
Today then again
Feel the difference
Of quietly taking
Or boldly living
In the present
That we wait for
Or the present
We fold into
