Another year has almost passed
Another eternity went by so fast
From who I was and what I did
To what is gone and what remains.
And I learned painfully again
You can say the bravest things
Count your virtues righteously
Convinced you know all your sins.
Time just laughs, that pious bitch
Remorselessly yet once more
You’ll do the things you did before
This time though you’ll know you know.
So sing me no psalms,
Preach me no sermons,
No lists of honor, no sins determined.
No Gods so upright, no minions of Satan.
Just life in flow, just death forsaken.
-alka