How screaming fast it is going!
How this year just begun is flying!
January the beginning is now passed,
February the lover’s month is here, so fast!
Resolutions made quickly ebb past
As proposers view a different forecast,
For a moment there emotions ran high,
It’s the custom as the New Year draws nigh.
The New Year begun and ended in January
Takes a similar course to those gone before,
Those resolutions were for the New Year
That means one month, no less and no more.
So out of the New Year and into the old
Promises recently hot are now gone cold,
Back to the old habits that were never left
No need to investigate this peculiar theft.
Life has now resorted to the regular track
Of forgotten resolutions and promises made,
Made to be broken just like most promises,
Just some of the idiosyncrasies of life’s trade.
The humdrum is back and the old routines,
They never really left, just a change of scenes,
Valentine’s day will occasion a temporary shift
As chocolates and flowers disguise the lover’s rift.
Just an eye in the storm of façade and charade
That temporarily covers up the deceit on parade,
Especially in those myriad of pretentious cases
Where the genuine is gone leaving unreal faces.
Caution! Plasters are never an effective cure,
They are more like the fisherman’s clever lure
That captures gullible fish in quantities galore
Like Valentine advertising for many a store.
So January is gone and February is begun,
Thereafter this year will take the normal run
Just like all the years that have come and gone,
Resolutions forgotten and promises broken
Strewn across life’s well manicured lawn.
Stewart Russell © 2016
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