Hopes And Woes Of The New Year. Poem by Tony Adah

The midnight was chilly
Cold wrapped a shroud
Of its wind around the townsfolks
Expectant like a pregnant woman
They made burnfires and music and
A great howl came from the fireworks
That gave the night tide its resplendence
Of a rainbow and kept the new year adherents awake.

The new year truly came to pass
The roosters woke up with the lark
In their quotidian trade
And gave the new born a throaty crow
The world left history of the old year
To embrace the reality of the new year.

One could make no difference
Between last year's new year
And the new year of today
Same hopes dashed at last
And perhaps same woes loaded
In the empty year new at birth.