Happy New Year!
the urbanite exclaims
her alcoholic eyes
fixing me unseeingly
in midnight hysteria.
Notwithstanding
she seems caught
in the moment
celebrating…what?
Once it was on earth
the coming of light
and spring ended
the primordial terror
winter would bring
when new daylight
signified life itself
in seasonal rebirth.
But now we exist
in metropolises
that never sleep
with no true night
condemning us all
to perpetual light.
~Ian Fletcher
Cardiff, South Wales