Now the year will soon change to a new one
and take us with it on its inevitable journey
in what we call time

we roll on in the changing weathers
and changing fortunes
gathering new impressions of the whole
but never coming to the conclusion

like time
it goes on forever
we cannot know it all
we cannot fathom the reality of this universe

only create our hypotheses
and hope that they give a frame of thought
that can guide us
through its vicissitudinous spiral
from birth to not being

although we never leave
as there is no space around us
nowhere that there is nothing
even if we tend to call it air
as that too has its chemical compound
and is full of invisible particles
of which in the final analysis
we are a part of

Margaret Ann Waddicor 17th December 2015