Some breaths we take, are minute swishes, rising and falling like ocean swells on a calm day until they become gasping crackles whistling from your chest shaking snow from the paned glass. You flip to breathe, then flip again thumping your chest to fluff like a pillow. You straighten your back wait for the silence to break pulling in a breath of air hoping the clanking sound is just your teeth chattering.
Glowing heavens star to star
hold the moon
that holds your heart
guided through the darkest nights
revealing shapes
in skyward flights.
Night becomes light
as the shadows fade
melting constellations
while ethereal brightness
dies away…
We
laugh rising in the light
lie down weeping in the night
we hug the world until it sings
then curse it for the war it brings
we live
we love
we hope
we fear
it’s a burden we accept
each bright and shiny New Year
