New Year’s Eve 99-2000

All I can feel is emptiness inside

Feel my shadow crawling

Up my empty stomach

Past Christmas lights of

Green and White

Reflect on the river Liffey

Green hovering lights

Illuminate O’Connell bridge

And I remember the taste

Of Guinness just one night before

The sounds of whistles and horns

And delighted drunk happiness

All invades the air

Waiting for slow fireworks in the night sky

Camera flashes pop and go off

As I smell the scent of wood burning

And salt sea

And alcohol last night

But now

Lost once again

Deeply wondering

On a cold-warm wet

December night

Wonder if I’ll wake up tomorrow

No fear of Millennium

Or Technology or Harm

Just want to know

If I will be me tomorrow

Or just my reflection and

A cold dark empty stare

© 1999 David Greg Harth

99.12.31.21:57:00 @ Dublin Ireland Alongside the Liffey River