December 2020
Betsy Mars
marsfish@aol.com / marsmyst.wordpress.com/
Bio Note: I know what we experience in California is Winter Lite, but still, the days are shorter and this year, especially, will be spent more inside and in introspection. As much as I struggle with depression and isolation, this time of pulling back seems to be necessary for me as an opportunity to absorb, and with any luck, grow as I enter a new year.

Now is the Winter

Now is the time 
for hibernation, 
now is the time 
for rest – with sealed eyes 
I face the dark, with stomach full,
I digest – all the seasons that came before, 
all that are yet to come,
I lie down on the cool cave floor 
and to the shadows, 
I succumb.
Originally published in Your Daily Poem
©2020 Betsy Mars
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