We Welcome You (In Hexametre) <br /> <br />O New Year, may I request you to throw some light <br />On why you always sneak in at the hour of midnight? <br />Is it the dread of being mobbed by motley mortals, <br />Pestering you to pile up presents at their portals, <br />Or metamorphose to mansions, their huts with Midas' touch? <br />But why should this flimsy fear frighen you so much? <br /> <br />To learn how to tactfully tackle each indent, <br />See the Speaker sail through 'Zero Hour' in Parliament! <br />Thereafter, too, if none the wiser you become, <br />Block your ears and band your eyes ere you come, <br />Blindly scatter all your gifts, and lock your hands - <br />Bothering not at whose door which thing lands. <br /> <br />When HE Himself - it appears - hardly cares <br />What use is made, and by whom, of His own wares, <br />Whoever can decry your aimless distribution? <br />HIS hands alone hold the whole and sole solution. <br />We welcome you, O New Year; you wish us well, we know, <br />Whether or not you're able to wean away our woe.<br /><br />Dr. Tulsi Hanumanthu<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-welcome-you/
