The Gift of Heat to Winter
In the cold dark winter night
That stretches ever on
Across the fields of snow
And through the haunted forest
When the sky is speckled
By the stars pitiless and sharp
And all the land is cold and dark
When the stones come tumbling
Down the barren mountain
Two come heart to heart
And strike, a spark!
Warm, fiery, glow
Radiate into the winter night
Let your kin join you as you fly
Return heat and hope to the world
One by one the sparks’ light shall show
Speckling the night with heat
In reds and oranges flicker warm
Change the tone of shadows
No longer cast by stars alone
But by flickering fire
Roust from sleep the lightning storm!
As the clouds come rolling in
As the thunder cracks
As light flashes
For the warmth and the fire
We celebrate the din
For the storm heats the land
And the sparks fill the air with magic
Flickering with life and joy
Together changing a winter night
As they thrive hand in hand
For the gift of branches dry
Within a circle of the stone
That gave sparks and shields life
As fire grows and blazes high
A curtain of color rippling
The color of heat and thriving life
As the beings of winter lift their heads
And join around the fire in dance
Bringing wood from which the fire may spring
As it returns the heat of life to air and light
To the long, dark, cold, winter night.
