Another Year

log fueled fire blazes in a hearth, throwing out intermittent shadows embellishing a darkened room a flickering candle burns through yet another Christmas eve, its light reaches out to highlight images of a family past a silence is broken by a rocking, creaking chair that projects it's outline upon an empty wall, a victim of years gone by reminiscences of many such nights, as a wind roars around snow-filled fields outside of a bolted wooden door..