Winter Solstice Blessing

A Solstice Blessing

By Pádraig Ó Tuama

As night stretches here,

day contracts elsewhere.

And in their night, we are

 bathed in light. In all nights 

there is light; in long days

there can be ache too.

For you, we call the sun

to stand still a while, and

the moon too, and stars, and

the waters and the heavens.

Hell as well - just for a 

second: just for a breath.

May that breath rest you,

and may each breath rest you,

as it has until now, and now

and now. This one, after 

that one, after that one after

that