Shortest day of the year--the sun's resolution

Please set, old sun. Then don’t refuse to rise in the morning, behind white winter clouds. Burn and rise and conquer the grey and frozen earth. Old sun, please set and settle deep into yesterday’s final darkness and have it be gone and forgotten, forgiven, and embraced for being done and past, its memory a long dead friend whose faults you’ve dismissed and whose life you celebrate now and then with a drink, a private joke, and a smile. And one thing more, old sun: make tomorrow last a little longer this year, warm and strong and young for a little while longer this year and  we may recover, and again feel your life, your hope.