Empty Chairs

The shortest day and the longest night

On the northern hemisphere

Falls on the day of earths obliquity

It’s also the traditional feast day

Of saint thomas the apostle

Where those living with grief in church

Leave chairs empty to honour their loss

It’s also the day of blue Christmas

Otherwise known as the longest night

They honour their losses as they

Mark their winter solstice with candles

For the southern hemisphere,

This day marks the shortest nights

And the longest days, summer solstice

But nowhere in the history books

Does it say that December 21st

Is also your birthday, in heaven now

I would rather not look at your empty chair

It’s been too many years of feeling blue

On our third rock from the sun

The equinox marks equal day and night

When the sun sits above the equator

Making the day and night equally matched

If I meet you on the equator on this day instead

Can heaven and earth meet for a moment

So we can stand together without chairs?

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My research into the meaning of ‘EQUINOX’ led me to learn that there is quite a few significant entries in the history books for the same day as the solstice on December 21st. This day has a completely different meaning to me, however all of these people who have these traditions have based them around dealing with the empty spaces in their lives left over from loss and grief. This I can relate to greatly now for on this day I have no one to wish Happy Birthday to anymore.

Thanks for reading 🕊️