New Years Eve

midnight
clinking glasses
deafening fireworks
at the wrong end of the beach
with crowds of locals

no drunks or disorderly
few tourists
spontaneous greetings
warm handshakes
from hotel staff
great dancers

i hope it will be
a Happy New Year
a year of personal peace
just for once
where I will put away
the silk purses
wrapped in ribbons of
imagination and love
and leave the
sows' ears to themselves