(Written January 1, 2008 12:10 am)

I think of the last time
"Happy New Year!!!"
We shouted out loud
Thinking of all the shouts
That shouted it unanimously
Undoubtedly dreaming of the new beginnings
That were beginning at that time so passionately
So many so massively unaware
Of the year of pain to be shared
By all those so ready, so naive and unprepared
By all that lay ahead in the year 07
Through all of the hell
Some may have gained heaven
Some may have lost leverage
With God due to sin
And I find myself wondering which group I reside in
How I managed to slide in
To the new year while more worthy beings have been slain
While more women and men's bodies have been plagued
By disease and by pain
Broken hearts and slit vains
At their own hands
At the demands of a twisted unforgiving government
Letters unwritten and flowers unsent
And all of those who never made it past 07 1/1
And never got to witness who they may have become
And now I sit alone at a small grey laptop
Writing a poem dedicated to all those heart stops
All those deep meaningful laughs and jaw drops
To all the broken hearts, and those who can't help but to break them
Those who love love and all the cynics who hate em
To all the tears cried, And the shoulders on which they fell
To all those who felt the need to lie
And all those who gained hundreds of stories to tell
This is to all men and women on earth who rung in the new year
Farewell to 07 because 08 is now here...