The year has arrived
2025
with skill, determination,
decision, and zeal,
bringing with it
many new things,
some of which are bad
and others, good.

One of the things
that comforts me the most
is being able to count
on my great family.
And some friends
who are so close,
that in the end they turn out
like brothers.

We've enjoyed
food and drink,
those that add
flavor to life.
Moments of rest,
of pleasant sun,
more hours and hours
of home cinema.

But just as it happens
with yin and yang,
there are things that come,
others that go,
and to try to
clip your wings,
with the good things
come other bad ones.

Let no one rush,
nor anticipate me!
For I am only talking
about a flu,
with lots of congestion,
aches and cough,
that with the hoarseness,
took away my voice.

I used medicine
from the natural,
with aloe, honey,
with lemon and salt.
Also the allopathic
(the one from fine science):
tablets, syrups,
with lidocaine.

But this flu
is like a gendarme,
and no matter how much I try,
it doesn't want to leave me.
I must now make
the big decision,
to drown it in the bottom
of a glass of rum.