Dusk to dawn

  Mellowing ball of orange swallowed by the waters

Celebrations of crackers lighting up the night sky cover

Another number on the calendar counter flips over

Heralding a brand new dawn of dreams and desires

                                                                                         

Shower of yellow mistletoes and glittering confetti

Gifts, goodies, myriad festoons balloons galore

Revelry merry making and wingding that we adore

Hymns, melody, jazz, rock and roll medley

                                                                                  

Ecstatic bundles of bambino joys, blessed in New Year

Twelve months of gurgling babbling innocence

 Crawling, nibbling Playing piggy back in cadence

Cherubic and childlike, baby’s first steps, bringing cheer

Departure of near and dear ones leaving memories

Eternal sorrow amidst chants requiems and eulogy

Our hearts anguish and lament in melancholy

They pass into a great beyond and time freezes

                                

Period of looking within and introspection

Hindsight to set things in perspective

Resolutions broken and framed inactive

A flashback recollected in contemplation

Promising ambitions with a future bright and rosy

Yearning for a sanguine morrow with aspiration

Beliefs of optimism and thoughts no cessation

A year of hope for fondness, mirth and all that is cosy!