End of year haiku..

Welcome the New Year
Let peace and love be our goals
It's still possible

Winds left broken trees;                                                        
tilted, uprooted, fallen
Sun floods forest floors

Skies break wide open
Stars leap from cold indigo
Reality bites

Fallen from a bluff,
a cottage now is kindling
Rains caused much sadness

Ease racial tensions;
no keeping score anymore
Unarmed can be tazed

Iraqi war toll
take responsibility
for torture, murder

Life is worth living
then brains can  become quite ill,
Most joy slips away

Welcome the New Year
wipe the tears and blood away
Now is the right time