Be still.
Be the dark
Be the breath of night
Be silence.
Turn inward.
Be your own breath.
Feel your own dark.
Hear it whispering.
Listen
What does it say?
What does it say?
What is it saying to you?
Listen.
Hear.
Hear the voice of the dark.
Feel
Feel the breath of night.
Feel the cold of night.
Feel yourself at the center of a universe
that spins and flows around you.
Feel your smallness.
Feel yourself a singular pulse of energy
racing among stars and galaxies.
Feel.
Sleep.
Sleep breathing deeply.
Sleep safe in the arms of night.
Sleep, growing warm and gentle, like animals
that dream winter dreams
in secret caves.
Sleep.
Dream.
Dream the dreams of stars.
Dream the dreams of the sleeping Earth.
Dream of your earthly body.
Dream of dancing.
Feel.
Feel the stirring.
Feel your soft breathing quicken.
Feel a spark kindle.
Change.
Turn.
Feel.
Wake.
Wake to the lessening dark
Wake to your heart beating with anticipation.
Wake, stand, stretching your earthly body.
Wake, and see light.
Wake.
See
See the first gleam
See incandescence
See the sun transfigure what was dark
into day.
See it light Earth’s body, your body, your blessed spark,
illuminating all.
Dance.
Rejoice.
Be.
Anita Susi
December 21, 2022
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