Cheers to the New Year!

Everything seems to fold up nicely

As you place it all in the box.

As you place the lids, 

You wish quietly to pack up some memories too...

To leave it all in the year before. 

Sometimes all you need is a clean slate...

So clean you feel like a brand new person.

One can dream...

The new  year is celebrated like a life...

As if a hero had passed and came back from the dead. 

All these years I was sad to be alone on this night..

Upset if I didn't have someone or the one at midnight.

But nothing ever happens whether you do or don't.

Yet we all want it.

The new year means we made it.

It means sticks and stones may hurt us,

But here we are breathing another day.

It makes everything seem so petty. 

I cheers tonight to those who are no longer. 

I cheers tonight to those that can't cheers,

To those that are missing someone they will never hold again.

Tonight I cheers to those who have lost 

And to those who look down upon us. 

Tonight, I lift my glass  and say:

"Cheers to another year that I may breathe. 

To remembering my life is a gift and I must live it to the fullest. 

Cheers!"

Happy New Years!

~~grb   12.31.13~~

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