A year to roll like a dice

Picture: man rolling the dice

With high hopes we stepped on a year that was supposed to be ten and zen.
Instead the world shook with earthquakes, 222,570 died in Tahiti, only.
Eyjafjallajokull burst out with hate, impacting travel, economy and health.
Monsoon flooded Pakistan; land and people submerged forlornly.
Many in Russia smoked the ashes for weeks, not of cigarettes but that of trees.
Heavy blizzards killed many homeless; some even paralyzed hopes for Christmas.

Despair turning moments to a decade, we are about to count up another year.
The countdown of sorrow has sunken deep in us; who can see the lights of future?
How but wow: we pray, we wish and we believe, oh still!
So let us drink for a new year to roll like a dice; for a new chance with every throw down.
Let us still hope in 2011.

Beril 27/12/10

Transition

It is close by
your side and has been
with you all along,
in two thousand and nine.

It is close by
A small scalar change
a nine to a ten.
One step forward again.

It’ll be a big change
that you have to believe in
the solution to everything
when you can’t deal with present,
jump into your future,
A nine to a ten
Take a step forward, again.

It is a journey you take
no luggage for your sake
Just the naked truth per se
and you,
leave all behind
you worked for so hard
All is now two thousand and
when you step from nine to and ten.

Beril
24/12/09