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This

Is this for me - this silence of the snow

            This calm of early morning light

            This gentle easing of the night

Before the winter sun begins to glow?

Is this for me -  this distant blackbird's call

            The silvered trees above the road

            The shimmer of their chilly load

Expectant of the morning's new snow fall?

Is this for me - this sunlight on the hills

            This flock all facing the same way

            Grazing at the break of day

Along the freezing rivulets and gills?

Is this for me - this amplitude of space,

            This joy, this sense that everything

            That is, flows from the eternal spring

Nurtured by your outpouring of grace?

Brian Hick January 2013

Sally Hick 20.1.25