~Silent Night~
by Hyel

I sit silently, watching the night.
Outside, it is sprinkled with light.
Golden droplets on a black cape,
soiled with patterns of human make.

And this is Yule, in the warmth,
in the silence, in the dark north.
The night stretches out, revealing
the vastness around this planetling.

The stars hum, and they fill my head,
pour through my cells - my disgust's fled.
Power is awake, and love is fulfilled
as earth brights forth that which was killed.

And then I return, and I am me again,
in front of the night, my journey in vain.
In some time, my family returns.
Until then, only a candle burns.