A Garden Portrait

I hope everyone have a great New Year Eve. Not just the Eve, but also a splendid 2008. Let us look forward to a brand new year (2009). We all have our ups and downs; sometime we don't even have the time to appreciate what we have been through. Each years that passed, time felt shorter and shorter, and next thing we know, it is too late. We'll be thinking of all the regrets and the missed chances in life while closing our eye to future opportunities. Since there is an hour till the new year (well for me at least), we should look back in ourselves. Create a resolution so that we will live with no regrets. Since it is the new year, why not have a fresh start and be happy?

Here is a new poem that I recently finished.

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A Garden Portrait

The sky swallowed all the stars.
Nothing is left, but the falling snow
and the wind that strolls alongside it.
While singing a song for these dying flowers,
this garden became a graveyard
filled with nothing but the decays.

When the snow have melted away,
the song became a prayer.
Slowly being recited as each petals
are being picked up one by one.
They escort the wind from the Garden of Eden
to a place where they can't be reached.

This garden is now filled with stems.
Bodies cripple as the petals float away.
Here, among the thousand of petals
fluttering into the empty sky;
is a flower, with a single petal,
that's still holding onto the ground