winter invocation

stand near,
you brave ones
here around this fire.

stand still,
exhale
and know
the light increases again.

so then,
I bring an invocation
I have learned to summon strength
on solstice.

may I pass the teaching on to you?

my voice is yours.
I hear you say:

now,
start
I make moments art
in the shortest day,
the longest night,
I delight.

I delight where I winter.

whether in fight, failure, or fame,
I feel the flame for this moment.

I feel the fire of my foundation,
the fathomless core of my creation.

so I stand
blessed by all spirits around me near
blessed by the ocean and the darkness here
blessed by solstice and the circling earth
a living gift of death/rebirth
to be continued.
I stand
to be continued,
my light strongly continued.


thank you.
burn fiercely, friends.

the fire is here.





12/16/22