HAPPY TODAY AND THE 364 DAYS TO COMEP POR EDUARDO OWEN

Fairfield

Dawn

A quarter past four

First of January 2011

A brand new year

 

A Christmas tree

Without a “use by” date

Watches me write this poem

From a corner of the room

 

A few dozen agonising flowers

Fight off death

With water up to their waists

In a blue glass vase that sits on an ancient coffee table

 

Outside

The sky keeps shining its darkness

Over the roofs of the houses and the buildings

(The streets the gardens and the tree tops as well)

After the celebrations

The many glasses of “champagne”

The nice food

The good wishes

The kisses and the hugs

And the fire works

All the neighbourhood eyelids

Have retired to their fleshy beds

To sleep and dream in their different languages

 

The dawn and me

Alone and lonely

(Lonely and alone)

Wish each other

A very happy today

And the 364 days to come...

©EDUARDO OWEN