Bountiful New Year

 

you coalesced 

into my timeline

in the last hour

of an over-brimmed

year;

your gentle eyes

melted away the details

of your hard face;

a fellow nomad

freezing, weathering  this

blizzard 

that edges us closer

to the scaffold -

life;

a Precious moment

shared by two

souls that had wandered

continents to meet, celebrate

with man-made Stars;

pray they guide the twelfth

newborn of this millenia

smoothly to replace the old;

amidst the scent of tobacco,

drunk mirth spiked 

with the remnants  of burnt wood;

deafened by the sound of the

first cries, laughter and songs -

the departed’s adieus;

to make space for the new

to make space -

for revived hopes -

strengthened wills

dreams more vivid

even if it were for 

a few spirit doused spells

where the world seems

 less heavy, less bleak

where a simple act as sharing gum

just for a magical second -

appears more bountiful

filling us both with a touch of

ecstasy.

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Kaa Na Kalyanasundaram]

Your New Year welcome is very nice and lovely. I like it. With regards.