The Meanings of a New Year

Two people standing in a room

breathing the same air

seeing things differently.

One of them is digging their nails

into the walls,

latching on

to those experiences

that brought him joy

throughout the year.

He feels as if

he is at the tip of a high mountain,

and the next year can only drag him down

a slippery slope

that is hard to recover from.
The other person cannot wait

to forget all the things that happened

in the year he sees as the worst.

Every year he regrets his actions,

praying that the next year

treats him better,

while going on his days

repeating the things he regrets.

In the room

there lays a hidden treasure

full of jewels and bright diamonds

next to their feet.
The chest remains forever unopened,

one does not welcome it

as it can result in change,

and the other wants nothing to do

with anything related to the past.

Breathlessly

they run in circles forever,

unable to appreciate

the value of the present time.