To the New Year <br /> <br />If Life be a Sea and your are a Wave, <br />O kind New Year, will you not save <br />Us from sinking, by letting us ride <br />Atop your apex, taming the tide? <br /> <br />If Life be a Book and a Page you are, <br />O neat New Year, let us not mar <br />With blots and blotches, your fresh fair face, <br />Nor waste, with blanks, you scanty space. <br /> <br />If Life be a Play and you are a Scene, <br />Help us enact some roles that are clean, <br />O noble New Year, during your term. <br />Be fair sans favour, forgiving but firm. <br /> <br />If Life be a Travel and a Train you be, <br />O New Year dear, please hear my plea: <br />Carry us not, through rancid routes, <br />To stalls that sell forbidden fruits. <br /> <br />If Life be a Game and you are a Ball, <br />O smart New Year, fail not to fall <br />In goals like Health, courage, compassion; <br />Avoid such goals as pelf and passion. <br />I <br />f Life be a Prayer and you are His proxy <br />Bringing us alms, O New Year, mercy! <br />Place some crumbs of Peace in our bowls <br />To feed our hungry hearts and souls.<br /><br />Dr. Tulsi Hanumanthu<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-new-year/
