POETRY

New Year Resolved to be

January 1, 2017

To live so that even those

who​​ would choose​​ however

benignly to​​ destroy​​ 

all that I treasure

are irrelevant and​​ 

superfluous to my real joys.

 

to cheat​​ time​​ 

not so much by

living fast but​​ making

sure to​​ fill in the

gaps opened​​ by​​ every​​ second

of light provided me by the sun

and​​ the moon.

 

to be such a friend to others

that​​ in our connections

​​ there is energy ​​ loaded onto ​​ a​​ 

grid that no power company

can​​ claim to own nor​​ lose

in a whirlwind nor fail

in catastrophe.

 

to see through all the posturing

and strutting and know that​​ 

it is all vanity and that without

an audience a fool

is only foolish​​ and nothing more.

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