The Greying Of The Year

As an anonymous voice said some days ago, we were chatting. During that chat, I mentioned a small but significant truth - just as April is the cruellest month, so September is the greyest. Why? Because it is the end of the year, but not quite. Because it is the end of hope, just before hope returns. It is the first of four embers, and when all the embers are gone, it is the bleak midwinter. It is the oldest month before dying, for October is the month of the dying of the year. And so, grey, a saturnine month, ponderous, slouching its way towards Bethlehem. Good night.