Reflections

Anonymous

High School Student

March 2023

I pray to the Compass.

To guide me along the path I have chosen,

To inform my decisions, and my mistakes,

So that I may see more clearly.

I pray to the Hermit.

To find power in loneliness,

And strength in solitude,

To trust myself.

I pray to the Mask.

To conceal my emotion inside,

So that neither rage nor sadness may show,

To become rational.

I pray to the Long Winter.

To the decay which follows it,

So that it may freeze the tears that fall from my eyes,

And freeze the landscape around me.

I pray to the Great Mountains.

So that when time isn't the healer,

and the hourglass becomes my wraith,

I may find resilience.

I pray to the Shadow.

Whose undying loyalty will remain,

Which will follow to the ends of the earth,

And perhaps into the beyond.

I pray to the Sunrise,

That will signal I have lived another day

I pray the Endless Night,

To hope that it will not let me fade

I pray to the Ashes,

To know that I will have burned brighter

I pray to the Owl,

To keep a watchful eye over my grave.

I pray to the Quill.

To record what has become of my days.