The New Year
by Marc Mangel
Years come and go
some good some bad
some not much at all
but each and all at one time were new
new today
new in hope
and new in joy new in
what might be or in what perhaps
may be
But old
since we rarely learn or try
to
from what has been or
what might have been
the mistakes of yesterday
with the seven o’clock news
and our last cup of wine
so as the new year comes and tomorrow
it is old
we think of what we should have learned
from the past and maybe learn
Sept 1970