The newcomer
like any other cucumber
can be sliced and diced
but not suffice the actuating cause

Oh. -and the year that passed is being
transformed into a grey go away bird

and every year I feel that I sit on a
teeter-totter but I am always on the 
wrong side, hanging from the seesaw
with dangling feet feeling the burden
of the last year On the other side of the
seesaw where the past year sits on
touching the solid ground . . . anyway
anyway every day that passes by is like

a humongous ONION that we have to peel
and dice . Some days the Onion(day)brings me
to tears not because I let fears guide me but because
I now and then forget to let the onion soak 
in water bring out the true flavour of the day
without being so harsh. Yes, New year's resolutions
are a good idea but one must listen to the needs of the soul


but the soul, the eternal soul like every eyeless
cave fish(remember plato's black cave?Add some water
and the eyeless fish in it free the prisoners:)

eh, almost . . . but, but I forgot that I read something more 
poignant. It's from The Republic written by Plato I so love
the fact that the internet gives me faster access to knowledge 
and I am not done expressing myself yet but oh well
*tick - tock*. . .

So here is what I read:

"How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the
question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles, --are you still the man you were?Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I  had escaped from a mad and furious master. His words have often occurred to  my mind since, and they seem as good to me now as at the time when he uttered them. For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold,  then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers;for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." From The republic, book I written 360 B.C.E by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett


http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.2.i.html