This Blissful Break

In the aftermath of the Xmas storm
before the New Year is busily born -
unto resolution ruin

When even Time takes a break
to stretch out and be blameless;
unresolved and shameless

The streets sense it and slow,
the cars take their break
to know

What bliss it is to break
without braking,
to move without shaking,
to give without taking,
to live without faking

To bask, to the tender last, before
we begin again to be bitter
trying, as we will, to be better.