New Year Coming

I’ve been waiting for you, preoccupied in thought.

Though hurried hands tend to the present;

the eyes of my heart look back in that over-the-shoulder,

what-just-happened, sort of way.

I look out the window, wondering how long.

Watchful,  checking again... ready for you way too early.

  

You appear out of nowhere, as though somehow you hurried, but didn’t.

Your sweet time taken, I knew you would get here.

Never too late to save the day.

You look wonderful, different, a little older, wiser.

I embrace you completely with a great sigh of relief
and for a moment, time stands still.

…breathless…

I have needed you to start again. 

Bring my hands and heart together to beat in perfect time.

A rhythm of new beginnings.

Patricia Spreng

Welcoming in the New Year and wishing everyone a blessed year of new beginnings.  Joining with friends at d’Verse Poets