Yay, 2022, you beautiful, precious baby,
welcome to this world of extreme proliferation!
Please be kind to us as we travel
your span-handled days! Reteach us wisdom
without alienation. Greet our propensities
without unfounded praise! Undo the
tightened screws of wherewithal ways!

We are excited, nay, giddy with renewed
expectations of happy occupation of our
placement in Time! Thank you for your
innocent countenance and acceptance of
frazzled motes of consciousness just
trying to scrape by, with humility, under
the ever expanding wings of Life!

Oh beautiful Year! I'm afraid I fear
quick months with their slow days and
intermittent ways.. But, wait, sweet
music faint beguiles my soul! Hark, all
persons glad, melodies mix and hold out
their hands; with me! with me! - reach!
reach! far and wide, offer yourself as
willing sacrifice! We are so near to the
other side!

Leap with me into a future of possibilities
of various types, spring forth, sing,
walk, dance, run, crawl into your new
life of similarities to years gone by!
Sleep, gently, 2021; it's time to die,
tired year, your tears are recognized,
sleep well...

So, 2022, closer you strut into our lives!
Hurry! Bring your continuance so
lives can die, and Live! Cheers to the
Old Year, slaintѐ to the New!

Hush, everyone! The time has come! Five,
four, three, two, one!! Hurrah, hello,
yay, hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!!! Fresh days
to live, new months to behold, this will
be the best year ever!

Now, it's time, once more, open The New
Year, let it saunter in, previous personal
problems sit back and grin, soon to
sandpaper Life with sawdust-eyes.

The aging and benign, impressions shadows,
soon to pass the middle line, toppling
out, out, out onto today, stuck between
yesterday and tomorrow, just like last
Year, just like last year.. Just another
new New Year, again, only a new Year,
just.. another.. year..

.....let's all go home.

Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
© 1/5/2022