May

 

 

You and I may or may not

But May will come

All because in a matter of hours

April will be done.

 

The year began yesterday

At least, that’s how it feels

But four months have passed

At a terrific speed.

 

Soon we will hear bells

Christmas bells, I mean,

And Old Year’s will be upon us:

Another changing scene.

 

January and February

March and April!

One-third of the year has gone;

It’s unretractable.

 

New Year’s resolutions

“Gone through de eddoes”,

We are not likely to change now;

You and I both know.

 

New Year’s resolutions

Are exactly that!

A New Year’s change for then

And that’s a fact.

 

It is nothing definitive,

Just a temporary urge

And even if it is in the least started,

Old self will re-emerge.

 

That is why in my case

I do not make any

For, I will never be of the few

But more so, of the many.

 

May is almost upon us

April is almost done,

Little success at our resolutions,

Failure has again won.

 

 

I reiterate, we may change,

Or most likely we may not

But that change can’t happen anytime,

I consider to be rot.

 

For every day begins a year:

The first day every 365,

Make new resolutions on any day

And then after them, strive!

 

You and I may see May

Or, you and I may not,

But, if in fact, you and I remain,

May will be our lot.

 

Enjoy the last eleven hours

Of April 2025

And after those New Year resolutions,

Continue to strive.

 

Stewart Russell © April 30, 2025