Longest Night
Today is the Winter Solstice! It is the longest night of the year whilst also being the shortest day. The original idea of the twelve...
In my vanity,
Sometimes,
I forget that you're dead
And lost to the world
Like the blue, sunlit
Mornings in the winter
Before the overcast sets in,
Greying the world once more
Arriving at the meridian of the day,
When it inevitably remembers,
With a chilly shudder,
The current season
That's me,
Forgetting myself,
Realizing it is once again time,
To don my cloak of grief
Forever eager for springtime,
Impatient to exchange,
The daily darkened sky,
For the occasional rainy day
If such a thing exists,
As if grief were cyclical,
Packaged together neatly,
In a calendar-shaped box