solstice*

I come across that stretch of path

Breath catching in my throat

So white 

Blind and hardly daring

To take a step

And think of you

The winter stops the world frozen

My blood is getting sluggish colder fast

 

Younger Brother,

You made it to the other side

* mid-13c., from Old French solstice (13c.), from Latin solstitium "point at which the sun seems to stand still"