Annual hope fest

Why do people gather for fireworks? Why do people celebrate the new year when it happens every 364 days anyway? Are all those who celebrate the new year hopeful for a better year? How many people are hoping for love? How many people are hoping to make it big in their respective jobs? How many people are content, saying "I hope the coming year is just as good as this one"? How many don't care?

However you may be celebrating tonight, cheers to hope, cheers to the good, cheers to the bad, CHEERS to the year that just might become the best one yet!

Sunny Road

Back entrance to Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia (2012).

We are on that sunny road
Each on the other side
Our gazes met and smiled
You said hello and continued to walk on

I walked on too
Wandering in parallel
Seeking refuge in foreign places
Our thoughts meeting sometimes

We are on that sunny road
Sometimes talking
Sometimes laughing
Then still we walk on

Someday you'll stop
Someday I will too
Both of us finding ourselves
Each on our own side of that sunny road.