A December Poem (For All Who Leaned Into The Long Surrender)
Written by Linford Detweiler
Enjoy the snow and how it falls,
Each flake a milky arabesque.
Sheer curtains draw across the sky
When winter slips her wedding dress
And lets it fall in drifts across the fields.
The world seems happy to be mute.
The vocal cords of enterprise
Are hushed for once beneath the storm.
Sheer curtains draw across the sky,
And you and I lie quietly—
Who knew that winter was so close and warm.
And you and I, we walk our road
Blanketed and bedded down.
Upon your head, my absentminded
Fingers trace a starry crown
Of distant things, that will fall down.
Snow and leaves and rain and stars
All fall with confidence and grace.
And only tears can hope to heal
The further reaches of our scars
And all that’s marred
And leaps to be made whole.
Tears will often make a way
For joy to find a face.
Snow and leaves and rain and stars
All fall with confidence and grace.
Sheer curtains draw across the sky,
And what about our hidden places
Too deep to reveal?
Snow and leaves and rain and stars
And tears and that’s not all, my friend:
Let them fall with confidence and grace.
Let them fall.
Let them fall.
