The Sworn Pause of Winter
Time hath paused on the darkest night
Where the stars shine clear and cold
Silence reigns in the blackest chill
As she did in times of old,
The wind is still
And the forest froze
And the shadows sharp may lie
On the snow and stone that chose
To harken to winter’s cry,
The wolves may stand
As statues still
On the ridges that grace the land,
The owls’ flight silent will
A shadow in a shadow be
That it not disrupt the stars
They shall fly ‘neath the canopy,
Velvet paws of cats do not mar
The sheen of the solstice snow
For they lie in wait in the forest
In shadows that only they know
By the stony cliffs’ crest
On the primeval boughs
Sly and alert they lie in wait
In the silence of a thousand vows
Made that they might never abate
By lives that dwelled in ages past
An oath of silence when time shall pause
To remember as long as eternity shall last
Precious memory effect and cause
Remind us in the winter still
Of when the universe was young
And knew not but darkness and chill
Before life had ever begun
In its color and vibrance
In its noise and its light
When the universe took a chance.
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