The Eternal Cycle: A Review of “A New Dawn”
The Eternal Cycle: A Review of “A New Dawn” by KPC We celebrate the clock like it owes us something. New year. New start. New energy. But what if time never agreed to any of that? In “A New Dawn” , featured in the January 2026 issue of Krafty Page ChronicleS , Prasanna Kkumar strips away the illusion and brings us back to something more honest—time doesn’t reset. It continues. The Illusion of “New” This piece doesn’t chase celebration. It questions it. “And I believe there is no such / To be derived and desired,” That line alone challenges the idea that meaning is tied to dates. That change is scheduled. That transformation arrives because a calendar flips. It doesn’t. Time doesn’t pause to acknowledge our milestones. It moves—steady, indifferent, uninterrupted. Nature Doesn’t Count—It Flows Where we measure, nature moves. Kkumar leans into imagery that feels lived instead of labeled: “petrichor of April sweat,”...