Untitled 12/23/2010

It is the weariness of a year
near its end that sighs inside me. 
I can feel the weight of all its days
and the fractious fever of those final few
that pushed me to this stopping place:
here,
where silence sits beside me,
waiting like a faithful, lifelong friend.
And we will rest together,
expectant for the end,
saying nothing to each other 
of the hope that we still harbor,
secret in our hearts,
that we will see the advent once again
from darkness
of the miracle of joy.

December 23 2010