Returning Light

I start again, the new day after the darkest

shining so brightly with shimmering sensation

Here, now, present, connected, the brook babbles, the birds sing, the air shifts as the radiant sun warms us all

I invite my ancestors with the candle I light, here, only I cannot perceive them with my senses. Time separates us, but this is just an illusion

The illusion breaks, for a moment, time unbounded, all directions. I cannot fully hold it, and it slips from my grasp

Now, still, I am a reflecting pool

Nature ecstatic to breathe and flow, and I am one with it

together we flow, exchanging essence, light increasing and bringing us collectively out of the darkness, dim perhaps

Rising

Recharging

Stored somewhere, and breaking free

Entropy is the enigma which I strive to place somewhere other than in myself

The system, one in it, prana flowing down, the world turns, the planets move, the stars dance, the whole creation continues

Time

This moment, this now, ongoing, eternal, a perfect gift

The solstice passes