Hello 2015

You lie asleep,

deep in dreams,

deaf to all our

whispered wishes that

somehow you –

the fresh babe of the New Year –

will deliver all we have been denied,

resolve all our sorrows

in the coming tomorrows.

 

We’ve tasked you with

rectifying bad habits,

sad outlooks,

bettering our butts,

improving our paychecks,

forgetting lifetimes of regret—

in short: affirmation, dammit

that we all deserve, right?

 

It’s a lot to ask

of a one-day old,

slumbering peacefully

in the dark.

 

We all kiss you at

midnight,

drunk in

your new baby smell

shouting you be

Happy New Year,

by which we mean that

you will do everything,

little one,

to make us happy,

finally happy.

 

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