Another year to the past belongs:
Goodbye to all the troubled days it
Brought.  Goodbye to the empty nights when
Nothing was everything, when sleep was a dream,
When dreaming was impossible.  Goodbye
To the illness and the pain, to the dreadful
Anxiety.  Goodbye to the hatred and the
Anger — and to the ruined possibility.

Let the new year dawn with the promise of
Good days filled with kindness.  Let time itself
Now repent for its neglect of us.  And
Death be damned this day.  Let it not return
Here but be a stranger for even an
Hour.  And let us live, for once, unafraid.





Understanding is a stranger
Who rarely comes this way – 
I see him on occasion – 
But never does he stay.

No point in running after – 
A quicker sprinter he – 
Chase only means disaster – 
Understandably.





The boy of words who never had spoken
Stood at the edge of a universe hurt
And silently wept for dreams become cursed
And daydreams and rainbows all but broken.
Yes.  Even these he had barely known — when
Each one collapsed and each one deserted
What had already been a damaged world — 
Where it seemed most everyone was no one.

His tears turned to ice — and then to diamonds — 
A miracle wrought — and value declared — 
Despite the sad stillness of the moment...
For beauty is beauty — never undone — 
Nor be so true wonder — the child of care — 
These — and love too — eternally present.