Goodbye to winter clothes and hot drinks
To the fireplace and Nordic blankets
Goodbye to Orion and his dog’s light
To long winter nights under the jewels of the night sky
Goodbye to the footstep’s sound over the snowed land on an afternoon walk
To the moonlight reflected on white snow at midnight
To the touch of flakes falling on the skin at dawn
You take these presents to distant lands
And I’ll await your return until next year
The sun sets over winter, and rises in springtime.