Resolutions.

 Lust for life

Lust for life with each New Year

With much to toast and much to cheer

What to do with life’s next decade?

To waste away or embrace without fear

Of falling or failing, it won’t be plain sailing

Despite all the potions for all our old ailing 

But lying in bed won’t cut the mustard

Get active and lively and live to a hundred

And make them all suffer with advice by the chapter

But cheer them up after with with tales and with laughter

That are better than pills 

And the care of the doctor. 

It’s the start of a year that’s going to be better

It better start now or I’ll write it a letter

Like my lines to the Times never yet published

The letters that only the agéd can offer. 

The sun is still shining in St. Helen’s Bay

The daylight lasts longer this January day

I won’t rest in shadows away from the sun

I’ll open my arms in widest display 

Embracing the heat, enjoying the waves

That fall on the beach deserted and fine

Enchanted by sounds of water on sand

As fine as the tune of a military band. 

Low the sun lies in a sky milky blue

Exiling our sorrows if only a few

Hours until sunset and let the bright morrow

Deal with the future of joy or of sorrow.