Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice

Once upon a solstice bright,
When day gave way to longest night,
You stood in white, my beacon true,
The world aglow in frost and you.

A crown of oak, a vow so bold,
A love like fire against the cold.
Your hair, the sunset’s crimson flare,
A spark of warmth in frozen air.

We did not know what time would weave,
The roads we’d walk, the joys, the grief.
Yet hand in hand, through dark and dawn,
The light between us lingered on.

We lost, we found, we broke, we mended,
Yet through it all, our love ascended.
Through sorrow’s chill and fortune’s grace,
We made a home, a sacred place.

And now we've journeyed far and wide,
Through shifting turn and tide,
Yet here we stand where once we swore,
Upon the solstice, evermore.