Happy New Year

Flooded gates
Of years gone past
Have left a score
Of those aghast
In harbor shores
I trim my sail
But I decide
I cannot whale

I cannot go
The ocean vast
Of many seas
We may not last
Ahead and lee
Direct my path
Move forward hence
And not look back

Again I try
To bear the deck
But seas oppose
About my neck
Have taken breath
And life from me
And cast it to a lifeless sea

And whose domain
Will never roar
But quiet then
And hear no more

A litany
Of streaming years
Will never quench
The crowd that jeers
But time will come
When oceans take
The sea of us
And will forsake