Death Of A Year

Good-bye, 2014.

A crowd gathers

By his bedside

Awaiting final word

From Father Time.

As the doctor

Shakes her head

At the patient

Before her.

A body

Riddled with

Airplane shrapnel

Bullet wounds

Strangulation marks

With accompanying bruising.

Never mind

The faint signs

Of Ebola emerging

Upon the body.

But none

Of these conditions

Killed the patient.

Rather

Old age did.

Pulling a sheet

Over the patients head

Before walking away.

As December

And January started

Their mournful crying.

July August

And September

Tried to consolidate

Them.

Knowing

A long cold bitter winter

Awaits the world.

Unless

They found a way

To stop these tears

From falling.

The sound

Of a baby's crying

As she's forced

To take

Her first breath

Penetrates the room.

Bringing

A huge smile

To Father Time's face

Lightening

The room's atmosphere.

"Folks

While we mourn

The loss of 2014.

"But

2015 has arrived

A mere babe

To be embraced

and celebrated

The possibility

Before us."

Father Time's

Parting words

Before he left

The room.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[MomzillaNC]

I like your use of Father Time and the reflection of the year behind us in his representation. I also like the hopeful direction he leaves as he departs.

NOTES: The [loss] of 2014.

[therisa]

Thank you, Momzilla. Was trying to write something different, from what most people would write to mark, the end of a year, and the beginning of the new one. Thanks, for the correction.

[MomzillaNC]

yw :)

[Matching Socks]

Therisa, this brought a tear to my eye.
So much tragedy in 2014. Too much.
It's good to put it to rest. I hope for a better 2015 but...
We've had plane crashes, a terrorist attack other random acts of violence.
It truly weighs heavy on my heart.
This was very moving.

[therisa]

Thank you, Ana. I needed to write something different, to mark the end of 2014, from everyone else.

[Matching Socks]

You did a great job.

[therisa]

Thank you, very much.

[ANTO]

This is beautiful Therisa - its the whole package i feel.
:)

[therisa]

Thank you, Anto. I struggled for 3 days, to get the right wording, to match the idea, I had, in my mind.

[ANTO]

wow - now that is tenacious - I would have given up methinks - fair play to ye Therisa !

[therisa]

Am stubborn that way, Anto, have given a poem, a year hiatus, before completing it.

[ANTO]

a year ! well I have non-intentionally revisited poems from the 90s recently - why just the other day I got out an old one and edited a wee hair here and there for a very dear friend to see. They liked it and that was good enough for me!

[therisa]

In some things, I'm a perfectionist, my poems are, one such area.