The Nexus Collection: Ewan Elliott, A New Year

A New Year

    As we say goodbye to the last, a new year stretches before us
    In all its myriad splendour and possibilities
    What will be different about this new year?

A repeat of the same old shit
Or a revamp to update today's?

    Some standards need to remain
    Some things don't need to change
    Some things shouldn't

    There is always choice - it just gets harder to find
    The ones that are worth holding on to
    For things will change - that we can be sure

An old woman looks at me as we talk
Looks in her purse - offers me $10.00

"I think you need this more than I do," she says

Later a young woman shivers in the cold
As her stabbed husband lies in a hospital bed

I give her the $10.00 for a taxi home

    One constant we have is things will change
    The court is still out on what things
    But there will be change

That we can be assured of.