New Years Eve, 2022

Putting the old year to rest, settling itself into history

and memories, some to be forgotten, recalled,

bittersweet, that which was giving way to that

which will be in this new year coming, counting

down like the end of a time fast approaching,

a ball dropping, or the start of some race beginning,

a commencing – and GO!  Face it full speed ahead,

pacing ourselves for the long race, a steeplechase

of obstacles, of changes in front of us, or blind-sided,

some rash endeavor or one carefully planned, a roadmap

of detours, stops, and starts, starting over; and what shall

we become but another year older, another year wiser, or just

another year added to our lives or taken; and how shall we

we spend it? Squander it, the old one day at a time that never

really happens, or save it up for later, but saving it, though,

for whom, or for what in the new year soon to replace

the old, put to rest, settling into history and memory, that

which was:  5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1, GO!