last poem of 2013

It is only a few minutes before midnight, 
but it is already way, way past my bedtime. 
So, in case I crash before the clock strikes, 
and am transferred to the world of dreams,
of voyages and of possibilities,
I want to wish everybody in the known 
and the unknown ModPo universe 
a happy, safe, and prosperous 2014! 
Keep reading poetry, and keep writing it, 
fearlessly, the bad stuff and the good, 
the bounded and the unbound,
the modern and the post-modern. 
Keep the faith, keep the fires burning - 
the hereafter far surpasses the present.