Soliloquy

The fire is burning with a flame so red
that time stops ticking inside your head.
Your soul has not known nor been so aglow
and your body’s never seeped inside the snow.
When you know that Christmas is up ahead,
the days of pain seem to be of long ago.

Love has found another meaning this time
adding more vertices to this unending climb.
Life has not known a phase of more delight
‘stead of running away, you’ve begun the fight.
Peace seemed as turbulent as wartime,
It’s Christmas and you’re sleeping well at night.

To be pleased with your efforts, to be free
to walk away to the wilderness or into the sea.
God knows it’s Christmas when you smile
and tell yourself it’s OK to stay here awhile.
There are plenty of reasons why you need to be
more patient to make it even more worthwhile.

The gift of time has found another meaning
half of it when awake and a half while dreaming
Incongruous of the application of all your love
that has now been accepted by the heavens above.
Of the things you need, desire is intervening
to remind you of what it would not behove.

Life has escalated to the heights of dizzying feats
yet its heart remains interred within heartbeats.
Too soon it’s Christmas and you wonder aloud
whether this year has indeed made you proud.
Confident enough to know that history repeats
itself and comes a full circle in this crowd.

What have you not given in this search you’re on,
The night seems fairly long before the dawn.
Yet all you can do is endure, take it if you must
going back to the things and people you trust.
Now that it’s Christmas and summer is long gone,
there’s a reason it was YOU they chose to entrust.