New Year's resolution
The hourglass burned,
white sand slowly slipping
against brittle rims
time is tick trick ticking,
Cascades turned marsh,
Slowsand to quicksand,
Harshness endured,
Friendships ascend
Up the bridge! Let gate be closed!
The weary walls of silence
Hush all the voices - well endosed
in pretty packs of acquiescence
The fool, the magician and the bard
all left in disenchantment
Time for change of mind and heart
Reason last on the embarkment
I pledge my plea to my dear friends
With whom I shared pleasure 'n pain
Means to no end and an end to means,
Render efforts sadly in vain.
Freely I roam as of hence
this surreal realm of dust,
Unblemishedly conscient - cogniscient
Of the fragile figments of trust
Swimming off to sweeter shores,
Where mermaids may splash for evermore..
