Happy New Year

By Reid Laurence

Flooded gates

Of years gone past

Have left a score

Of those aghast

In harbor shores

I trim my sail

But I decide

I cannot whale

I cannot go

The ocean vast

Of many seas

We may not last

Ahead and lee

Direct my path

Move forward hence

And not look back

Again I try

To bear the deck

But seas oppose

About my neck

Have taken breath

And life from me

And cast it to a lifeless sea

And whose domain

Will never roar

But quiet then

And hear no more

A litany

Of streaming years

Will never quench

The crowd that jeers

But time will come

When oceans take

The sea of us

And will forsake

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