Meeting The New Year Poem by RIC BASTASA

all the dogs
will scamper for safety
inside our room
as firecrackers hurt
their ears

insensitive humans
driving all the good spirits
filling this world with
noise and
superstitions

we turn the music on
those classical ones
perhaps Chopin's requiem

we have closed the doors
and windows
seal the room with the
glassy silence

we both lay in bed
side by side
to bid the old year
goodbye

soundly we sleep
calmly in each other's arms