Happy New Year, they said.

Parties and streamers,

Jostling and balloons.

One minute, until midnight;

Another year on the horizon.

It came and it went,

How time flies.

One year gone,

Another just begun.

I would never have known the difference,

If someone hadn't told me.

The beginning of the next,

Was a page right out of the one before.

Nothing changes,

People party hard and then forget.

Bogged down by life and stress,

Happiness can be fleeting.

The world turns as before,

The days come and they go.

The sun does not rest because it is a new year,

It will shine regardless.