NEVER BROUGHT TO MIND

It was all the rage

To hit the town

To count those final seconds down

To crowd inside unpleasant pubs

Or squeeze a way

Through sweaty clubs

For midnight’s chime

And raucous cheer

To welcome in that brand new year

With plastic glass of foamy beer

That’s never brought to mind

It was just the thing

To dance the night

In swirling bulbs of Christmas light

Until the hint of childhood missed

Was twisted on that midnight kiss

The music loud

The spinning world

A neon number now unfurled

With flickered hope in mind

And now we’re old

On New Year’s Eve

It’s so much harder to believe

We’d all dress up

And choose to leave

Our sofa and our families

To pick instead an awful night

And not the warmth

Of love and light

We’d surely left behind