I think of the last time “Happy New Year!!!” We shouted out loud Thinking of all the shouts That shouted it unanimously Undoubtedly dreaming of the new beginnings That were beginning at that time so passionately So many so massively unaware Of the year of pain to be shared By all those so ready, so naive and unprepared By all that lay ahead in the year 07 Through all of the hell Some may have gained heaven Some may have lost leverage With God due to sin And I find myself wondering which group I reside in How I managed to slide in To the new year while more worthy beings have been slain While more women and men’s bodies have been plagued By disease and by pain Broken hearts and slit vains At their own hands At the demands of a twisted unforgiving government Letters unwritten and flowers unsent And all of those who never made it past 07 1/1 And never got to witness who they may have become And now I sit alone at a small gray laptop Writing a poem dedicated to all those heart stops All those deep meaningful laughs and jaw drops To all the broken hearts, and those who can’t help but to break them Those who love love and all the cynics who hate em To all the tears cried, And the shoulders on which they fell To all those who felt the need to lie And all those who gained hundreds of stories to tell This is to all men and women on earth who rung in the new year Farewell to 07 because 08 is now here…

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