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New Years and Cynics
by Leslie P Garcia
Sunday, January 04, 2009
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Loosely, loosely part of the New Year "triology"!

Cynic? No, the label
Is a little hard.
I do greet new years,
Like strangers,
With certain skepticism--
I sometimes doubt
The promises of change.

But it isn't
A bitter holding off
Of hope, just the sense
Of deja-vu: years
Are neither entirely
Band nor good--in the end,
Our days are borrowed
From someone higher up;
We fashion them
As we may--or must?--
If I really were a cynic
I could have done away
With question marks by now.

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Reviewed by Regina Pounds	1/4/2009

A New Year starting always brings a sense of hope...which lessens as we experience more and more of the difficult parts of life, I think. And yet, no...not a Cynic you are. Happy New Year to you, Leslie! hugs Gina