Summer Solstice

It is that time again.

The buildings will stretch to the top.

Concrete jungles pop until we begin

our movement towards the dark.

People gathered at sacred stones.

For what? To watch the rise and waning

of the sun god?

Are you going to be reborn with that

pagan ritual?

How do you spend the longest day of this year?

It seems no one can hide their shit

from the burning fiend.

I'll honour it with wearing only black

and I never do that.

Today feels different.

It is because of the summer solstice, right?

The scent of time is slow.

Heavy, without any wings to

take away the extension of

this awakening.

You should not worry.

It is only today and then

our friend starts falling to sleep.

The cold rock takes the throne,

stealing some pale shimmers

so you can dance under its eye

and wait for winter.

And summer has not even

started properly, but then

again, this only happens once yearly.

Celebrate without remembering

the coming days.

Laze in the warmful glory.

A

(written on the 21st of June, 2022)