2013

This year that creeps up on the clock

Has made no friend in me,

It holds the seeds of all that may

Go wrong, adversity.

 

It drips, just like a faulty tap

Its rhythm undisturbed,

Creeps up along our boundaries,

May not be stopped, or curbed.

 

It answers only to itself

No fee may slow its chant,

Each life bleeds slowly with each tick,

Winds down our covenant.

 

I thank the year that we have seen

Pass on, and all its gains,

For we survived, and live to tell

Its laughter, and its pains.

 

But this intruder, in its cloak

Of anonymity,

Has yet to put its stamp on us

This gross humanity.

 

The millions who will pass away

Before this year is done,

Would wish to halt it in its sway,

Not write it on their tomb.

 

So let us all assault this year

With hope and pride possessed,

And blunt its sting, with deeds and cheer

Let God decide the rest!

 

David Lewis Paget

 

31 December 2012

Reviews

[Marie]

Very good...we must make the best of the new year given us...and it can be better than the one before...

I suppose your poetry rhymes because you craft your words carefully instead of just throwing them out willy-nilly. Of course I'm not a good enough writer even to question you.

[Maan]

Very nicely written, words of yours are showing some deep observation and experiences.

[the_stoic]

amazed by the line of thought of yours sir .. brilliant as always ! happy new year ..

[lee von cleef]

Let God, clear the way for his indifference,toast our good quality's, though they be few , that our so well known by the Police.

[Lena M. P.]

Spectacular poem to end one year and welcome in the next. Happy New Year and congratulations on a highly creative and productive year. You are the measuring tape we all hold ourselves up to.

[Avocations of Amber]

Very insightful poem and I love the rhythm of it and how it flows without breaking from thought to thought........

[quinfinn]

another profound and exhilarating write, tinged with wit and gleeful metaphor. i have come to expect great things from you, sir...well done!

[Anna]

I really enjoyed reading this, it was taken at such a different view then normally said. Great write!

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Hear hear! Great stuff! I really liked the next to the last verse...yet we all have to have some date written there I suppose. I think I'll be cremated...let my ashes be scattered along some lonely stretch of beach where I can wash out into the tide and be one with the sea again.

[Patricia B. Hepler]

Yes! Another wonderful poem, sir :) May this new year bloom with fresh potential and creativity for you~
~ pat

[michael.c.m]

Nice piece, David.