Monday – December 25, 2017

Winter Lights

Walking down one snowy path where fewer footprints fall,
Turning corners, looking up, I caught the Sunlight’s call
And wondered in that world of white, where only hearty tread,
Was Nature giving more than gleaming treasures straight ahead?

I closed my eyes into those beams that warmed my chilly face,
And wondered if the snow was trade for peace of season’s grace?
Shorter days and colder ways bring freezing winter nights,
Was the snow her reason so, of sending winter lights?

When the day does fade away, no food nor shelter found,
Won’t the glow from world-of-white, give lighting all around?
Even crescent moon or starlit night above the snow,
Illumination, faint and pure, to show us where to go

Surely there’s a reason here; this must be part of plan,
To give us back the light we lost while Nature’s course is ran
For as the world will take her rest, ‘till springtime’s warmer light,
She’ll give us gifts of ice and snow to guide us through the night

© Maureen (Mo) O’Brien
C U Soon,
-Mo