Let us drink to these final hours!\u00a0 Let us empty our pens!<\/p>\n
The ink has gone into the wine, the wine has flowed like ink,<\/p>\n
let us soak the papers in the flood!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This is the way the gods want to be celebrated!\u00a0 Let us amuse<\/p>\n
the muses with some new words, some brilliant drunken<\/p>\n
phrases we’d otherwise never use!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We are nearing the end of the race and we have prevailed!\u00a0 Is<\/p>\n
this not what the warriors feel when the enemy has fallen,<\/p>\n
the mighty demon of sleep put down?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But this has been more than endurance!\u00a0 I think of all the<\/p>\n
private laughs in the night, the arguments with the ghosts of<\/p>\n
my Christmasses past, present and future,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
While my husband stayed curled up in a ball in our warm bed,<\/p>\n
his nostalgia different to mine, his dreams less wild compared<\/p>\n
to what they used to be.\u00a0 No need to raise<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
My fist but I’ll grab those waiting laurels at the finish line, just<\/p>\n
you wait and see!\u00a0 There must be some decorative sash lying<\/p>\n
around.\u00a0 I wonder how it will look on me?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a9\u00a0 Ella Wagemakers, 11.32 Dutch time (= \u00a05.32 EST in the US)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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