Solstice Gift...

Outside the water on the ground

Is frozen down to stone

I step from warmth into the dark

And hear the deep wind moan

The Solstice Moon lights up the sky

the Dark lies on the Earth

The Great Wheel trembles at the turn

Moving to rebirth

I have seen the Solstice dark

With blood upon the ground

Giving lie to "Peace on Earth"

And no light was there found

I have seen the Solstice heal

Ceasing all my pain

Granting peace and clarity

A sweet carols refrain

And which Truth is now is greater

The violence on the ground?

Or Peace and hope now given

In new memories that I've found?

Change the date's remembrance

Like water into wine

The miracle of renewed life

A harvest on the Vine

Roll Great Wheel and turn

Deep upon the Earth

Bring the change and hope and pain

All bound up in Rebirth

Can we understand whats broken

Until it starts to mend?

No meaning given in our lives

Until we reach our End

In endings are beginnings

In the eternal Wheel of time

The bottom of the great Abyss

Begins to rise and climb

Growing there the Oak tree

Strong in the Solstice Wind

And like those mighty branches

I've learned how to bend.

Cameron 2010