24/11/2025
Keep Focusing on the Light
Keep focusing on the light,
especially in winter,
when days are shortest
and the world feels hushed by absence.
It is easy to feel swallowed
by the weight of loss,
by the cold that touches every room
and lingers where laughter once lived.
But even in the coldest months,
light persists.
It glints on frost-laced branches,
filters through clouds heavy with gray,
lingers in quiet corners
where the sun still dares to reach.
Notice it.
Trace how it bends,
softens the edges of sorrow.
Let it touch your skin,
let it warm your aching mind.
Winter is a teacher of patience.
The light is scarce,
but it is never gone.
It is in the gleam of morning
through frost-crusted windows,
in the flicker of a candle
against endless nights,
in the smiles that surface
even when your heart feels fractured.
Focus on the light,
as you hold both grief and hope
in the same trembling hand.
Let it guide your steps,
let it remind you
that even when everything feels dark,
light still remains.
~ 'Keep Focusing on the Light' by Spirit of a Hippie
✍️ Mary Anne Byrne
~ Art by Esther Bennink Esther Bennink - illustrator under a blankie
