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New Year
Most of what we will imminently do
lies in months not called January.
The year will unfurl for me and you
along our designs and surprises,
pitfalls wearing their disguises.
Your success is waiting patiently.
It may feel slow. The verdict seems to wait —
weaving through emails and calls,
and bumps we have to navigate.
Success is not a trumpeter —
instead it’s a kind of grafter,
a multitasker, juggling many balls.
There are those who know how to be silent;
who turn up each day, and work.
If ever they’re down, they don’t vent;
if tired, keep going in their way,
waiting on the fruits of the given day —
and never opt out, or sink, or shirk.
They don’t boast at the latest party;
they have no need to put on that act.
Instead, they know opportunity
lies always reasonably near —
and that the happiest new year
belongs to those who take that as fact.
