New Year

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I would like to introduce you to my life:

As she stands, a silhouette, frozen in time.

See the difference from the past,

Distance, in one place,

Altered in pace,

Unspeakably important –

As grains of sand in vast space.

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Her stride is long, in immobility, covering miles.

Features calm, more often wreath in thoughtfulness than smiles.

Her movements, though global,

Focus on few degrees of longitude,

Are wide spread in latitude.

Thoughts follow things that matter,

Accepting how they scatter,

Seldom seen but often remembered.

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Each past phase has given depth, and scars

For each, there is acquaintance, new parts,

An expansion of heart.

From pasts of laughter, pain and growth,

Of lessons learnt, of bridges burnt;

How to avoid the same mistakes again?

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Time, perhaps to share of wisdom’s growth?

To recognize, to analyze

Patterns as they re-arise.

Perception most in knowing what remains unknown.

In stepping back, unjudging,

Listening, observing, letting go,

In sensing rivers flow

And flowers grow.

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Kampala 2022