christmas poetry

you are beautiful and faded
braided and woven
in may
rose and amber was the sunset on the river
a storm is riding on the tide
i have known the silence of the stars and of the sea
behold me, in my chiffon, gauze and tinsel
could we but know
and still they walked on
dark-eyed
little gate was reached at last
they in the darkness gather and ask
as a naked man i go
when the hours of day are numbered