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Saturday, 31 December 2016

New Year, Old Year

New Year, Old Year

And so the question comes around again,
About hopes and wishes and resolution,
Determinations for another new year,
Or to simply avoid it – that’d be a solution!

Whether to create new personal targets,
To set oneself up for yet another fall,
Or be more realistic of weaknesses,
And admit that you’ll fail at them all.

As if a New Year creates a new life,
Where things will be different and strange,
Rather than some random point in time,
Invented by humans to mark out a change.

It’s just a certain mark in the calendar,
A cold counting of months and of days,
And to track the moon’s movements,
The lunar waxings and wanings of ways.

Just cast your mind back to last year -
What were all the things you promised you’d do?
No - I can’t remember them either!
All forgotten – isn’t that true?

So what’s the point of doing it all over?
You won’t get any fitter or slimmer,
You probably won’t save any more money -
There isn’t a chance – not a glimmer!

Life will continue the way it always does
The only sure things are death and tax,
So just be a little more practical -
Be at peace with yourself - and relax!


Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2016

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