Love Song For The New Year

Originally posted 12/31/2011.

Every day starts a year.
Every day ends one.
Any day can be celebrated,
any day regretted.

Regret one day
for one day,
let celebration
of the next begin.

All I need for
any year or day: 
one with whom
to celebrate,

one with whom
to commiserate,
one with whom to share
the New Year of every single day.

Just one with whom to straighten
up after the labor,
one with whom to soothe
and be soothed;

one with whom
to start anew
each daily
New Year’s Day.