New Year Valentine

Every year readier
For a better year
As if a hummingbird flew near

Whispering eternity in my ear

The whir of memory once
So clear now a blur and blear
 
Of burning fog in which
The world is lifted
Out of its enchantment
 
Every morning by some brave bird
Willing to risk its wings
For a few old seeds
 
While the cat sleeps under the tree
And another year
Leaps from me