Between the Tick and the Tock

Suspended between the seconds

Hesitation between the tick and the tock

of Father Time’s clock

A hiccup between ‘tha’ and ‘thump’

of a heartbeat

Life’s celluloid reeling in slow motion

Moments…memories of the year now passed

splice into hazy images of wishes

for the year yet to come

Stock-piling results of choices made

Making room for new resolutions

Fresh opportunities to be a better person

Kinder, more understanding and generous

Expectations high for something wonderful to happen

in the new year waiting on the other side of the next second

The far side of the tock and the ‘thump’

And the glitter ball finally drops

The clock’s pendulum swings down and through

into a new heartbeat, the first second of a new year

waiting to be lived

© Monterey Sirak