2020: Another Year

Ko Taranaki te mounga. Ko Pouakai raua ko Kaitake te pae maunga. Ko Pukiekie te papakāinga.

2020 your symmetry is appealing
your potential unimagined 
yet you have made us no promises to be anything other than another 12 month calendar 

so why do we have expectations ?
when they are so clearly unfounded

why do we crave for things to be different 
to be better ? better than what ?
what we have is great . . . everything we could possibly want it to be

so why the feeling of emptiness
loneliness 
sorrow

​nagging, aching grief