Valaikaapu for the New Year

 

The sky gathers its clouds like elders preparing for a blessing.
Raindrops meet the lake, and bangles of ripples spread outward,
each circle a gentle ring of grace.
It is the valaikaapu of the heavens,
a celebration for the new year
still resting in the womb of time,
two or three months away from its first dawn.

Frogs croak in the distance,
and new blades of grass push through the softened earth.
Birds hide in their nests
like young girls shying away from the crowd.

Nature has already begun the music and the dance,
welcoming the child, a new year, 
before it even arrives.

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