I wait in the darkness of the cold winter
for the sun of the dawn to break,
to see the golden hue of the new year
to shake lose from the dead weight of the past
to gallop into the distant horizon---I wait!

The old receeds and the new arrives inconspicously---
the pendululm of time swings between the old
and the new creating waves of thoughts.

Riding on those thoughts I pursue my dreams into
the unchartered future---the new year is one more
step into that destination and
I whisper to myself "keep moving".

In Palakkad, Kerala, on 20th December 2001