On New Years Eve

A shorty for New Years. Likely it'll need a revise before next year, but for today I want to share it.


On New Years Eve

I laid down all the bags and suitcases
  I’d been carrying,
I forgot for a moment that my computer
  is going to explode in the morning, or that it
  will give my identity to terrorists, or that I
  waste too much of my time on Facebook and stupid games,
I wasn’t reminded that the person I didn't vote for is a bigger jerk
  than the one I did vote for,
I didn’t pay off my credit card or notice how it had grown,
I wasn’t scared of ebola or zika,
I didn’t feel my teeth were rotting
  and I’d need expensive implants,
I didn’t notice I was becoming
  a crumbling old man,
No,

I hugged you,
  I kissed you, and
You were warm, like a
  lap cat on a winter's night,
And after a good cuddle,

I got up, re-shouldered all that crap,
  and trudged on along again