Friday, January 08, 2016
Penny Hackett Evans--History (poem)
History
It’s nearly time
to place the year
in its envelope,
get out the sealing wax
label it the past.
Birthdays, deaths,
weddings, tulips,
passions ignited,
thoughts outgrown.
Pack them away.
Snowstorms, news
that wasn’t new,
morphed friendships,
ideas that glistened
crackled with newness.
The ups and downs
of your impatient heart.
Your mind’s door
pried open and shut
a thousand times.
All of that wanting.
Close the door.
Seal 2015 safely
into the sacred
unchangeable
past.
