May your New Year be one of your happiest and most rewarding.
Remember, 2019 is as yet “un-lived.” Choose each day to make the world a better place.
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Remember, 2019 is as yet “un-lived.” Choose each day to make the world a better place.
https://crookedcreek.live/2018/12/30/the-un-lived-year/
Midnight strikes, and the old year’s gone. We close the tablets we’ve written on. And torn ‘twixt hope and doubt and fear, we open the book of the Un-lived year!
An Un-lived year! Ah, stained with tears are the well-thumbed volumes of other years! Soiled by blunders and black regret are the pages we read with eyelids wet.
But fresh in our hands once more is laid a clean, new book by the Master made. Unmarred are the pages lying there — Twelve new chapters fresh and fair.
It is ours to write the daily tale, of how we conquer – or how we fail; Of struggle and effort and hope that makes like a song in the heart, when the bright day breaks.
Yes, fresh in our hands with the title clear, is the challenge now of an Un-lived year!
This poem was a favorite of my Mom’s and she read it aloud to me each New Year’s Eve. I am sorry that I do not know its author.