TIME DOESN'T STOP FOR NEW YEAR, CHANGING

"TIME DOESN'T STOP FOR NEW YEAR, CHANGING"
Margaret Ann Waddicor 31st December 2010.

As the old year turns its face,
the sun sinks down to other parts, from here,
I look out on the starlit heavens
and see the same galaxies of light,
the same formations, far away,
and yet they move so slowly, yes,
but move they do.

There is no stop in nature's workings,
no celebration of this hour we do,
time never still, goes on and we roll with its peal,
its gong of graceful flow, like wavelengths
ever travelling the surface of this globe,
from east to west, from west to east,
or north to south.

I stand and think, atop this hill,
and feel so small a cog, in wheels
that never stop, as with it we too must go,
and spin with earth's momentum,
I find this thrilling, simple truth,
enough to celebrate the moments
changing from one month into another,
and wave to every man, my sister, brother.