The View from Here

In the New Year,

I wish you joy and peace,

good health and grace.

I wish you the strength to turn away from fear

and embrace love with open arms.

We’ve come through a battle,

one not yet ending, but light shines on the horizon.

There is an electricity in the air that sparks a song in our hearts

as we look forward with eyes focused on promise.

Nothing has changed, but in one instant everything is somehow different.

Here’s to a new day, a new chapter;

let us write on our pages words of joy,

manifesting a bright future filled with light and bright with hope.