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

 

New Year's Trivia

 

 

Does anybody know

When a year is no longer new?

I’d say by the end of March,

How about you?

 

I guess you may think

That this is much too soon

But surely you can’t take it

Past the end of June.

 

By the end of June

A year surely cannot be new,

There cannot be anybody

Opposing this view.

 

 

The scale must tilt

For sure by the second half,

New Year greetings in July

Would make me laugh.

 

For truth be told,

A New Year cannot be old

And this is logical reasoning

I have been told.

 

An old New Year?

Why, that would be funny!

It certainly would be in July,

At least to me.

 

It’s not an oxymoron

The oxy would make sense

But moron would be very apt,

Hey, no offense!

 

In my humble opinion

I’d say no later than March,

Regarding New Year resolutions

One can still make a start.

 

 

Three months to begin

To make that new change

For New Year resolutions in July

I deem to be strange.

 

An Old Year-review

Is best done in the New,

Please do not wait until July

Before you do.

 

Stewart Russell © January 3, 2024