The new year –

A rite of passage

For a unique planet,

When its highest species

Pause to celebrate;

With some choosing to party

While others reflect,

And most take the time

To recalibrate –

To find something

That they’d love to fix.

And thus, with a new year

Are born,

Millions of resolutions,

Some airy, some not;

For each that remains unfulfilled,

There’s one that keeps its owner

Going on,

Just like the earth

On its relentless sojourn

Around the sun.

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