Not again!!
Not again!!
2022 to 3 to 4 to…
How do they do it?
One passing the torch
To the next in a split
Runners in a four by one hundred
Blazing past me
Without warning
Without pausing
Only moving ever forward
In ever-expanding concentric circles
And dragging me
Right along
Kickin’
Screamin’
“LET GO OF ME!
LET!”
I wanna stay behind
There are things in the old year still undone
People I wanted to know better
Places I wanted to explore
Hurts I wanted to erase
Pain that’s yet to be assuaged
Please.
Yet now
Here I am
Many things still
Up in the air
So 2023
Will you be kind?
Will you
Give me more time
Than 2022 did?
