It Was a Good Year

It was a good year —

just a few broken dreams,

no broken bones,

no famine,

no nuclear war.

It was a good year!

My new friends are fun,

my old friends are alive.

I’m a year older

but 365 ways wiser.

I've replaced a few broken dreams

with a dozen new and whole.

I can do it because

I have no broken bones,

I am not starving,

nuclear war didn’t destroy me.

I can dream big again!

It was a good year —

just a few broken dreams,

no broken bones,

no famine,

no nuclear war.

It was a good year!

© Helen Kanevsky, 2018

New Year train on the Circle line of Moscow Metro
Photo by government of Moscow
from Wikimedia Commons