A YEAR HAS COME...A YEAR HAS GONE (POEM )

                                       The most positive men are the most credulous.
Jonathan Swift
"Five...four...three...two...one...Happy New Year!"New Year's.Eve”: The mother of all anchors.  For many people, it's an opportunity to remember the things they most want to forget.  But Its also a time for endings and new beginnings; for moving away from things gone awry.  It's a time for learning to put your attention where you want it most-- as opposed to amplifying the very things that do not serve you in any way.  In short, it's finding the courage to look forward; or to find rhyme or reason in one's life.  This poem is dedicated to "beginning again" and moving toward a future in which anything is possible....A year has come, a year has gone.Its time to pause, reflect upon,what still remains, what had to change--priorities to rearrange.These thoughts with loved ones we exchange.A year has come, a year has gone...A year has come, a year has gone.In deep lament, we spin a yarn,of things that were or should have been.Of failing auras, endless din,with shallow breathing and tension.A year has come, a year has gone...A year has come, a year has gone.Yet thoughts of gloom continue on.A sudden loss-- of job or love,in either case from up above,left open wounds and edges rough.A year has come, a year has gone...A year has come, a year has gone.We "wash our hands" of what we scorn.Quick! Where's the 'sink' where this is done?I, too, have things I wish to shun.A way out from the web I've spun.A year has come, a year has gone...A year has come, a year has gone.A time to play the cards we've drawn.Report card time, review your "worth" --an old acquaintance in rebirth.Can resources change sighs to mirth?A year has come, a year has gone...A year has come, a year has gone.Nowhere to hide; nowhere to run.Beliefs that guide us-- sow our fate,A new beginning; a clean slate.A year has come, a year has gone... A year has come, a year has gone.No time to waste, disdain or mourn.With new found meanings, change your mind,and useful outcomes well-defined,lead to behaviors well-designed.A year has come, a year has gone...A year has come, a year has gone.With resolution we move on.A positive outlook, balanced scales.When all else fails, a few tall tales.A pause refreshing soothes what ails.A year has come, a year has gone...A year has come, a year has gone.We toast the night and beckon dawn.A new beginning, free from stress,chaste and absent of duress,to build new meanings for success.A year has come, a year has gone...A year has come, a year has gone.A bright tomorrow look upon.New goals, objectives set the pace,and useful beliefs do we embrace;so with success next year to face,a year has come... and a year has gone.