Bring the dried logs of your old hopes,
The hollowed-out promises of your yesterdays
Combustible mixes of regrets and faith
The varnished twigs of fading successes
Bring it all here;
Let us build a year high pile,
From the flaked-off rot of 365 days
And make a pyre – a bonfire,
For the old year, blazing off,
With its ashes cast into the burning debris of history.
(written for my birthday)
Yes let us pile the debris, the rubble and the empty, futile fragments of a checkered yesterday and set it all in a heap consumed in a billowing flame of newness of the now and tomorrow to come. Happy birthday fellow.
@KingsleyA, I couldn’t have put it any better; yours was a classy, grade A comment. So like Ellie Goulding sang: Burn..burn…burn…we gonna burn it up. Thank you for the kind comment.
Happy Birthday! This was lovely
@ufuomaotebele, so grateful. Thank you muchly. And double thanks for the kind review.
Brilliant piece; short and direct. Well done. Happy Bday..
@ayomitans, i appreciate your warm greetings. Thanks a bunch and some.
Congrats for blazin-off.happy birthday
@sambrightomo, yeahh…still blazing and all up in flames. Thank you, kind one, for the warm greetings.
I love this……….. belated birthday wishes @Omoniyi-Adeshola……….