NEW YEAR’S WISHES

 

Here’s to a new year of hope
One during which it’s easier to cope

A new year for rekindling dreams
Finding out things aren’t as dark as it seems

A year when every moment and connection counts
Do unto others as you would wish be done unto you

A year when those who’ve caused hurt won’t be around
Or, they will have changed
Forgiven, forgotten, explained

For some, lessons of the season will have been caught
For others, holy days mean naught

Prayers or hypocrisy, charades and masquerades
It’s not how you act, or utter, in a day, two, or three
It’s what you do all the time

A year to mean what you say and say what you mean
Not dilly and dally in between

There’s always consequences
Even if you’re not the one effected

Guilty or innocent
Good intentions, or not
Life’s laden with responsibility

Take it!

A year to play fair
Show others more care

A year to get beyond what was
Just because…

The lost can get found again
The found may get lost again

There’ll be second chances or third
Even though some may never feel understood or heard

Don’t ever give up!

MIndful, it’s important to be
Not just of "you," also of "me"

However alone or distracted you are
Whatever the excuse of the hour
Remember…

Kindness and consideration give power

Truth, trust, and respect lead to healthy communication
Ignoring and ignorance lead to heartache

Here’s to a year
Where no one’s left out

Here’s to a year
Where everyone’s deemed as valuable as the next
Or treated as such

Forget the superficial and frivolous
The trivial and self-centered

Forget anger and hate
Deception and lies

Your face will say it all, even if you don’t

Your eyes, your smile, your frown
Can’t hide what might let others down

What you don’t say says a lot

Think, feel, question
Acknowledge your part
"Goodness" is an art

Give heart!

Did you do right today?
Did you tread on anyone else’s toes?

Were your intentions sweet, honest, clear?
Did you act out of love, pain, or fear?

Did you return an e-mail or phone call?
Take the time to own up, say "sorry"?

What about the person waiting at the other end?
NIce way to treat a "friend"!

What excuses surfaced?
Was anyone misled?
In public, can you hold up your head?

Do you go to bed peeved, relieved, jealous, or mad?
What makes you sad?’

Do you toss and turn because of someone else, or yourself?

At the end of the day, are you proud of who you are—and can be?

When you’re happy, do you brush aside those who aren’t?
The ones who were there for you when you weren’t as lucky.

Have you tried your hardest?
Have others’ special deeds been taken for granted?

Did you use or (ab)use?

Getting away with things, being unaccountable
What does this really prove?

Someone else may be suffering somehow

No one need insist that they’re nicer than others think
It’s obvious when there’s a missing link

Here’s to a year where the best is yet to come
A time to join together to help positive things happen
If not for your own sake, for those whose lives you touch.