Resolve

I try to do the best I can,

The same as any other man

To bravely face this coming year,

As last year, when it first began

I face myself there in the mirror,

A few more gray hairs growing here

A few more errors understood,

My vision just a bit more clear

I’ll face the year as children would

And hope the future is as good

As all the years I’ve gathered in,

Remembering to knock on wood.

For I know mankind’s greatest sin

Is looking back at what has been,

And think him master of his soul

When watching a new year begin

For as the world goes speeding in its course

I cannot change it’s path by prayer, or force

Wilson/05