Endings and beginnings

With the New Year fast approaching I have been reflecting upon different time periods – days, months, and years – and the opportunities that each ending gives us to make a new beginning.

 

Endings and beginnings

 

Sunset, days end.

Another one’s around the bend.

Today’s was hard and you must mend,

But days are relentless and will transcend

Any hopes or godsend.

 

So I suggest

You have a rest,

Recuperate for you are blessed.

There is no need to be stressed

For tomorrow is a new quest.

 

Is the darkness of the night an ending

Or a beginning?

Is it the bending of time

Between yesterday and the impending tomorrow?

The end of a day or the start of the next?

 

The end of life or the start of a soul?

The end of one dream for a different goal?

The end of a half-life for one that is whole?

 

The end of this year.

The next is yours to unfold.

 

My wish list this year

To make a gross understatement, 2016 has been pretty dire politically, with worsening global inequality and atrocity. So for the 12 days of Christmas this year, I don’t want a partridge in a pear tree, but instead a more peaceful and fair world.

 

Fiery rain: A Syrian Nativity

Parody of 12 days of Christmas, my wish list this year

 

On the twelfth day of Christmas

my true love gave to me:

The world to not be crumbling

Stop the stereotyping

And all the weeping

Reduce the idle glancing

Charity not bling

Trump, are you kidding?

Minorities are paying

Lush green springs

Stop the empty words

All be friends

World full of love

And a big ass load of chocs for free