Brilliance Yet is Nigh

On Christmas Eve while baking little lemon cheesecakes for the big day, I had the film The Holiday playing on the tv in the background. There is this one great line the old guy Arthur says to Iris (played by Kate Winslet): “You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend.” She replies, “You're so right. You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God's sake!”

Some days later I was assembling this poem especially to celebrate New Year’s Eve. The first words I picked out were ‘the siren’, ‘of your story’, ‘it’s time’, ‘another past’ – and that striking line from the film came back into my mind.

The end of the old year is the perfect time to let go of the past and take charge of the future; to balance the scales and determine to make 2013 shine brilliant. (It’s also just the time for a little flirtation under the influence of midsummer night music.)

Thank you dear readers for your support this year. Have a fabulous New Year’s Eve and here’s to a shiny 2013!

Are you the siren of your story?
Blow bubbles in the pool of your world;
come up flirtatious
& glisten with midsummer night’s music,
for surrounded by another past
brilliance yet is nigh.
It’s time now to balance the spirit.