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Once upon this new year

I ask for good fortune,

If may be events could

For once dance to my tune,

Oh if my life could be

As simple as I wish,

I want not be happy

With just a flick and swish

But instead to have strength

To pursue all those goals

That remain at arm’s length

Since began my journey,

I wish to have wisdom

Enough to bend the knee

And break not all my bones

But too to still keep faith

Walking by three old crones,

I ask not a solution

But a sliver of hope,

I wish not absolution –

My sins are and will remain –

I ask but for a chance

To be a better one,

That from the shield and lance

Come silence and come peace,

Passion poetica

For life and its wonders,

Past and future splendors

And perhaps even me.

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Happy new year 2018!