The Memory of the Setting Summer Sun

• The memory of the setting summer Sun,
• Of warm and happy Life under his gaze,
• Has given way to Autumn’s dark and dun,
• And Winter’s icy dark and shortened days.
• Now Winter thinks himself to be the god,
• T’whom all must t’appease and supplicate,
• While he destroy Life’s happiness by rod
• Of punishment called, “Loneliness” and “Fate.”
• But Sun is growing stronger by the day,
• To melt the seeming Fate of Winter’s cold,
• And introduce his own by golden ray,
• To grow all future Life in living gold.
• This is the Fate I make for you and me,
• For I am Sun and you are Life, you see.

Copyright, John Justice, 2015