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Twelfth Night (January 5, 2023 A.D.)


The light is lower than it used.

There was a time when it was near,

yet as of late, o’er in the east

I’ve seen and felt it move away.


The air grows cold and day is turned

to night. And now the only light

is but the pale reflection from 

the sun, whose face we may not see.


Yet from the dark, this light reborn

will rouse this shadow world to life

and westward travels back to us

that death may die and light bring life.

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