Aquarius35
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
As the packed and reeling dance floor siphons in
The last of the reluctant gang,
Everybody dream-close now,
Our eyes and body language eager for the countdown:
As the DJ turns up the jollity another notch,
Nobody's really excited, yet
A shouted reversal of numbers, then
In a charge of noise the world turns,
And the New Year is launched
With procedural hugs from friends and strangers;
With an "Auld Acquaintance"
And a "Never Walk Alone"
As party-poppers crack;
With jabber-shrieks of fireworks bansheeing outside:
"What did you wish?"
-- Some more resolutions, the usual.
"And a year from now, where will you be?
"Any closer to one another,
"Any closer to that final goal?"
-- Well, yes, one year closer to it,
That's all you can be sure of, old friend.
And after that (routinely brief) review
The music continues to pound
And the dancers continue to prance
And the new year swells before us, ocean-vast,
Gorgeously,
Dangerously huge.
As the packed and reeling dance floor siphons in
The last of the reluctant gang,
Everybody dream-close now,
Our eyes and body language eager for the countdown:
As the DJ turns up the jollity another notch,
Nobody's really excited, yet
A shouted reversal of numbers, then
In a charge of noise the world turns,
And the New Year is launched
With procedural hugs from friends and strangers;
With an "Auld Acquaintance"
And a "Never Walk Alone"
As party-poppers crack;
With jabber-shrieks of fireworks bansheeing outside:
"What did you wish?"
-- Some more resolutions, the usual.
"And a year from now, where will you be?
"Any closer to one another,
"Any closer to that final goal?"
-- Well, yes, one year closer to it,
That's all you can be sure of, old friend.
And after that (routinely brief) review
The music continues to pound
And the dancers continue to prance
And the new year swells before us, ocean-vast,
Gorgeously,
Dangerously huge.