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Happy New Year
Thursday 31st December 2020 @ 2:37 pm
Let me take a moment
and offer a thought or two.
It’s really is for me,
but I’ll pretend it’s for you.
It will not be a poem,
but you might call it such
but then like 2020,
it will have to re–determine
the framework
through which you view,
poetry.
Personal reflection and honest pause
can be best disguised
as an offering to community,
whereas what’s really happening
is I’m trying to find
some way through
not to you
but to me.
To meaning and purpose
and dignity.
It’s been quite a year
The best and the worst?
No–one’s quite sure.
I’ve read words from people,
quite down in the dumps
stressed out and deflated
quite rightly bejaggered
by deep personal loss.
Loss they’ll not get through.
Such loss never should
be a thing to walk out of or finally get over.
It’s a new way of life that beckons a walk
that’s not like before.
And as for me
and my family?
We travelled every angle
from deep loss
to joy.
A dear father departed,
a beautiful wife saying yes.
There is no way to diminish
the impact of both
they both define life
and deep loss
and deep love.
Such is the key of the shape that’s to come
it will not be as–before.
We have not been undone,
in order to go backward
and live the same.
The unthoughtful humdrum
of corporate greed
and sellers delight
where social media makes you the fight
and all seems alright
as long as you’re buying and getting and buying and getting and buying and getting and getting and getting …
This year has pointed just beyond ourselves.
The words I’m reading from folks round the world
are fascinating and hopeful
and frightfully full
of a different angle being brought into view.
I’m reading of time
and how it’s been spent
of care and attention to neighbours who went
with time and resource,
giving all they could
for each other,
and every other.
The world took a breath
and changed it’s behaviour
and if not quite a moment to savour
it has been a time of transition
to possible new flavours.
So may greed feck away off
and love lead the way.
May my promised future
only work hand in hand with yours,
where all our hopes live together
without further
trampling over mother earth,
God Bless her.
May common life and worldly good
dictate our senses in all that it should,
and may peace and joy
not only be yours
may they be mine.
and all humankind.
In other words, look around qs you walk
afresh to another beginning,
holding all that has been
and hopeful for what will be
peace and joy to you
and also to me,
And to her, and to him, and to them, and to her,
and him,
and them, and her,
and her,
and him,
and them …
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