Tender Splendor of December

So, I arrange you quietly

And put you where you ought to be

But you are never far from me

Oh, splendor of a memory

The quietude of eventide

The flickering of firelight

Invites your shadow back to life

To vex me tender at my side

Ephemeral eternity

In turquoise echoes of the sea

Another season slips from me

To render tender memory

December binds the buoyant year

To drift where all days disappear

Hush, hush, contender of my tear

And potter of thought's silent sphere

For, though I put you out of sight

Somehow, the solitude of white

And flickering of firelight

Invites you here to dance tonight…

© Janet~