Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Their New Year Tradition

For fifty years for each New Year

They celebrated the same way,

One glass of wine each they would cheer

Their lives together, as the day

Of new began at old's midnight

They'd gaze into each other's face

In the warm glow of candlelight,

Sharing in toast in time and place,

As the Victrola played once more

For them the song of "Auld Lang Syne,"

Grateful for all love shared before,

Now and coming, will of divine.

I keep the tradition they had

For each New Year for Mom and Dad.