The Solstice Cycle

Here in the north, the light of solstice arrives. 
In illumination, our desires form, 
no longer thinking of what is good for me, 
we shift awareness of the universe’s yearning 
that calls us to engage in harmony 
and creative joy, with each other, in community.

We proceed to see the world beyond anger, 
retribution, and violence—the many ways 
of protecting our singular interests. 
We seek to honor each person’s joy 
within the differences of life lived— 
choices of habits, rituals, and traditions.

Never identical, yet we can empower 
each other’s preferences of living and loving 
in a life of learning and experiencing. 
We offer ourselves toward a waiting world. 
We open in an abundance of light, and then 
once again, we gently move toward darkness.

As days become shorter, a luminosity 
beckons us forward with hope and on 
into an explosion of light that once again
fills our days into our nights, and we 
with full hearts engage in a life of harmony 
and a bounty of inner and outermost peace. 

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“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.”

-Margaret Atwood