A New Day

I watched the day it came in just after morning light on the bay eerily dark and spectacular gray; how wild and restless blew the northeast winds each a howl upon the trees up down unhinged, racing hurriedly out to the seas while on the far set horizon eased ice-cold rain set upon a winter freeze with New Year's day, just another decade away; the rhythm of the clock tick tocked the minutes into hours drawn seconds away from the old year's powers and as the bells rang out so loud, so clear the crowds below shouted and cheered; twenty-twenty, a decade too quickly come with a faint look back to what we've done and a wonder questioning who we have become. I watched the day, the years ticking fast away what waits beyond this new horizon I wait patient and hopeful for wise compromising no deceit, no lies, no fake news, truth at last, rising.