New Beginnings

The anticipation

Had built…

Like multiple layers

On a

Centerpiece cake,

As each passing hour

Had ticked

Toward the

Final culmination,

The completion

And the highly awaited

Emergence

Of new opportunity

As the

Symbolic

Clean slate…

Poised now

Just beyond

The famed

Big apple drop,

Represented

A genesis

In life

And deed,

And a

Once a year chance

At new

Beginnings.