Happy New Year to Us!

As a gentle gentleman of letters
I have reached a point of repose of sorts
Having outfoxed the worst of my betters
Snug in my foxhole immune to the snorts
Of those who resist happy holidays
If we should dare to speak the wrong greeting

Those supermen who ever and always
Know what is wrong with us without meeting
Without ever bothering to listen
To what any of us lost souls might say
As on their brows their anointments glisten

They seem to have shut up and gone away
So it seems feasible to me that we
Who have at their hands known heartache and fear
Having survived all their mischief might see
Happier days in the coming new year

That half-empty glass looks half-full to me
Since were it not for hope the heart would break
And given self-fulfilling prophecy
Those who give up on hope make a mistake
And we can ill afford another one
This year we have all made enough of those

But soon we will see a new year begun
I can see hope if we keep on our toes
The only way is up (since we have done
About as badly as possible) so
Happy New Year to us! Our future is now

My brothers and my sisters here we go
I believe in us and want you to know
I have a good feeling about us somehow
That we can do it that we will get through it
With style and with grace with a smile on our face

And as for our masters? Agree to disagree
Look forward and not back nor let us regret
Our annus horribilis anomaly
Some of us are on a roll and I will bet
No matter what has happened the best is yet
To be for you and me: the best is yet to be

+Steven Curtis Lance



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