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New Year

New Year

just a different

day

pain doesn’t up

and go away

whatever the struggle

it’s within

numb to most things

the heart hardens

harder to break

work the next day

and it’s just a job

less you love it

and the children laugh

and play

and the only ones

who really pay attention

are the old and gray

or the “no cures”

and the grass isn’t green

like when the stone was planted

and something happened

to that someone

for it to be that bad

and the wash is waiting

order up

“out with the old”

and it’s never new

was it all for naught

or did Thou

love Thee

deepest

in the dark

TL

Published inTamiko Lowery