New Years Are a Chance for a Beginning

Music: Maio Maduro Maio.
By Lovira.
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New years are a chance for a beginning
Even when there hasn't been an end.
Wheels turn in an interminable bend,
Yet, marked in one spot, seem to wobble spinning.
Each year we hope to do a little better
Although we know that really nothing's changed.
Reason often is from hope estranged,
So we must dream if we would fate unfetter.

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