HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

 

down the shadow-lit moonstruck night
a rugged red-faced path that twisted and then heaved
feeling something wasn't quite so right;
 
feeling something, i whipped around to find
on a lonely night bedecked but recently bereaved
a larger shadow right behind.
 
a larger whisper informed me---i'm the year!
my friend, i've followed you unperceived.
just be, don't fret, i'm a happy year.
 
just be, the airy message came,
the best as yet that i've received,
for this was all and every year.
 
a new face to an old friend.

~Shreekumar Varma~

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