NEW YEAR WITH BLESSINGS
Welcome and well-done to the well born new year
Well born new year infusing strength to our veins
2025, the year we yearned for with quests and zest
Our zest and quests that shine now in the present
A present that can deflate any woo of woe as well
But what is so new about the so called new year
Our tropical trees and green flowers are in place
The level lands and fertile farms are still the same
Proxemics of our house and church look the same
But alas, all are now anew in the new time and year
Now stand, shine and oh, let good deeds also swell
As we ably breeze in to this pleasant flame of hope
Hope never to wail but to win and win and to cope
Not yet late to pray, wishing you fine new blessings
Of a brilliant and happy new year of fine findings!
A revised edition of “Our New Year Again” of 2008.
By Fr, Dr. Alozie Eugene .I (Eugenic Anthology, 2025)