hang onto your hats, it is the season. It is the moment
everything you hoped for, everything you feared
it comes in the dark of night,
so dark you think you will die of suffocation, terrible and wondrous beginnings and endings at this time of the year,
the birth of the Christ light so wrathful
the birth of the Christ child so tender,
it comes in a storm, whirlwind in the dead of the season
steady wisdom of the sure-footed creatures of the North
my reindeer and buffalo angels come to snuffle me, snuffle the baby
there is no holding on to anything but your beloved
and he is not who you thought.
the birth of the Christ child is the cause of happiness,
but it must result in human happiness, joy in the dark of the night,
not alone, my family, my loved ones, we press close together,
we affirm each other and the sacred together
we sing praises in the dead of the night,
even in deep depression and despair
we look for the causes of happiness, know them and become them
the victory of the Peace that is so implacable
that the mind cannot comprehend.