Waiting for this new year
new day
new beginning
like your birthday or
the first day of school,
one more chance to
start over
try again
get it right
this time
maybe.
Not for me
some ball dropping in Times Square
some crowd of people drinking somewhere
funny hats and horns and sparkly everything.
Instead, I write. Because I can.
And hope. Because I must.
Fragments is written by Mary Turck, who lives and writes in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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