New Year, Old Year

NEW POEM, NEW YEAR

(December 31, 2014)

New Year, Old year

fond farewell,

hopeful greeting,

in believing,

life is a balance sheet,

of noughts and plusses,

gain by grains

lose by pulses,

profit in the loss of others,

their hard luck

is yours to prosper.

Pathetic then

that those you plunder

are the only ones��� there,

when you founder,

because only the poor

know the meaning

of discover