“ Brand New”

Poem by Wendye Savage

In remembrance of what used to be

Yesterday is gone, a memory:

With all of it’s good and bad

The success and failures that we’ve had:

It is the hour, the time has come

To wave goodbye from where we’ve come:

Hold on to lessons learned and such

Press on to dreams, conquer much:

In a season of beginning new

With a list of hopeful things to do:

As we celebrate gift of life so dear

In a bright and hopeful brand new year.