From the dazzling depths comes  our new year

A performance both liturgical  and spare
Candle light in darkness,ancient ,new
Illuminated shadows of despair

Enter in the ones who loss can bear
Do not cross them out, nor  make them skew
The performance,ah liturgical , ah spare

From the dazzling depths comes  our new year
When will be the last of my own few?
lluminate and  fear not bleak despair

We do not let the fear of feelings bare
Abbreviate the pleasure , lose the clue.
A performance mute, liturgical  and spare

Candles in the darkness, how so fair?
Dark and light combine,  Da Vinci drew
Eliminate  excesses of despair

In the little crib the light was blue
Another, holier world is here and now
A performance both liturgical  and spare
Illuminated shadows of despair