Despite the appearances
we have no cause for despair
no need to count misfortunes
no point in bemoaning this year
no value in fearing what’s to come
Do we really believe
that with all we possess within
and all we’ve gained and achieved
we are somehow in worse straits
than our ancestors found themselves in?
Yes, new threats and new dangers
but also new springs of creation,
new understandings, insights, changes,
new energies of transformation
crossing from a timeless sphere
To us, here in this year, alive
at the threshold of what is to be,
free to enter the tide of light
that is ever surviving,
ever arriving.
Jeffrey Agnoli is an educator and poet who lives in Edgartown. His illustrated book of poems, “God’s Silent Bell,” can be viewed on the website blurb.com.
