Tuesday, December 31, 2024

New Year's Eve 2024

 I wake, unrested, from fractured sleep.

New Year’s Eve.

A marker on the endless line.


Fifty odd years of Auld Lang Syne —

faces blurred, moments lost,

promises that dissolved

before they could take root.


Perhaps next year,

I’ll find the strength to begin again.


No resolutions this time though,

only a quiet, trembling hope

that the year ahead

will be kinder than the one before.



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