Sunday, December 11, 2022

Annus Exitus


The year has grown old, tired and cranky.

Its once-boisterous entrance in youthful

enthusiasm has waned, festiveness no

longer on its agenda, long-term plans beyond

its light-stepping spring season forgotten as

it groans with the effort to produce another

and yet another day, unable to muster the

energy to produce ambient light of such short

duration it's hardly a day. Warmth has eluded

the year in its progress toward termination with

memory of a long and lazy summer bright with

flowers and butterflies long faded, a brief mirage

destined to end but in its passing handing over

to Autumn the vibrant shades of the rainbow to

drape over trees the year would soon assign a

long slumber to while its winter apprentice cast

dark and early dusk over the landscape in a 

dismal stage handicapping joy in the eyes of the

beholder then, contrite, showering it all with the

brilliance of shimmering sequins of ice and snow

the year's final gift before its ultimate silent exit.

 

 

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