Goodbye winter

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.