HAPPY NEW...WHAT?

the day
was standing
in the world

not knowing
just what
to do with itself

I was standing
outside
the world

not exactly eager
to be part of
the New Year

somehow I
had escaped
both time and space

but knew there was
no way out of it and
would have to return

a bird
sang
creation into being

and I had to step back
into the ways of the world
hoping against hope

that things would be
could be
better

but of course it was
more of
the same old same old


*


And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke