A New Year's Poem



A Poem for the New Year…


If We Could Only Exchange

A Dope on a Rope

For a Little Hope

As We Enter 08,

The Year That Will Hopefully

Change Our Fate...

What ARe OUr Hopes

For the New Year?

Would It Be to End the Fear?


To Anticipate Bees Will Be Swarming...


And Oceans That Won't Be Warming....


That men of Good Will Give Pause


And Find Faith in Our Democratic Laws...


That Compassion

Will Once Again

Come into Fashion

That Hatred and Wars Will Fade

That the Advantages of “Green” Will Persuade


That We Shall Some Day Think it Funny


That We Elected Politicians Because of Money….

That Our Children Will Discern

That there’s More to Life

Than What You Earn…

That the Middle Class

Will be rewarded

for its Labors

And that our leaders

Won’t Be Persuaded

For the favors!....


That People Will Rejoin

The Community of Man

And That Everyone

Will Be a Fan….


These are my thoughts

As we approach the New Year

In the hope

And Expectation

That We Will Not

Disappear

A People Gentle and Kind


Will Not Be Inclined,

Need I instruct,

To Hasten the March to


Self-Destruct!


By Les Aaron
hubmaster@aol.com
The Committee for Positive Change