one year

one year
is not a long time -
compared to ten years,
or twenty years,
or a hundred.

all we have now is one year,
one very short year.
today, we begin another year,
another very short year.

and, you will see -
it will pass.
and, the year after this one -
it will pass, too.
and, year after year,
as the years pass away,
so will your tears,
though never your memories.