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New Year's Day
Years are over. Years begin.
Time, it folds unto itself.
Time returns and circles close.
Ends commencing somewhere else.
Times and lives, all far away
People, places left behind
Raise a toast to all of them.
And all that cannot be defined.
Now I'm older, feeling gray,
Yet freer than I've been before.
I dance, I smile, I laugh, I play.
I only long to do it more.
All of this leads me to say,
A truly wise man cannot think,
"This or that I shall not be",
And "from this water I shall not drink".
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