Winter Solstice

 

SOLSTICE 2022

The sun has set over cold Fundy Bay

No more southward from today

Now it settles still for three days

Then northward head its golden rays

Each year since creatures first arose

At night in darkness they took repose

But wondered at the sparkling stars

And planets like the moon and mars

With longer days the earth takes hold

Of rebirth from the dark and cold

Our joints too are eased from pain

And seeds wake up once again

It happens slowly but at a pace

That tells us speed wins not the race.

Let’s take a moment just like the sun

To gather strength, renewal has begun.