Solstice's Quiet Call
By Annette Camp
December 21, 2024
Solstice arrives, not with fanfare, but with a whisper,
and a blanket to drape across the world’s shoulders.
She asks for our pause, our willingness to listen,
to sit in the shadows of our own minds and hearts.
But we fight her gentle pull with distractions:
the hum of consumerism, adult beverages, and
the glow of screens replacing starlight and faces.
We flee inward not into ourselves, but into noise.
Yet winter waits, patient and unyielding,
as Solstice whispers of quiet and rest.
For in her silence is an invitation to mourn,
to mend, to make peace with the passing year.
And when the light begins to slowly return,
when the seed stirs deep in the frozen soil,
we will rise, not hurried, but renewed and
ready to bloom beneath the sun's warmth.
