December Darkness

Send us Fan MailDecember darkness, the earth enveloped in seas of clouds and winter grey, hard to believe the sun will rise above the rooftops and lift the stars of light from night to day, but for now the world is silent, hushed to stillness, the trees whisper songs of wind and summer, the moon hangs in the tangle of branches, slipping between the hours of midnight leavesand the lastchimes of bells and towers as the season becomes colder, the night lengthens to deepen the shadows, from grey to blue and back, hard to believe the heat of summer,the hope of spring, now that December darkness brings the blindness of the [email protected]