Every year, we "let our hair down"
and celebrate with solstice cheer,
we over-eat, get extravagant,
drink too much champagne, or beer.

We spend too much, try & do too much,
and party up a storm;
all the while steady complaining
how last year barely kept us warm!

How it didn't quite live up to be
a better year than the one before;
funny, how last year's complaints
we seem to forget, or else ignore.

But, what we end up believing in
is simply defined as hope;
it's in our human nature
for to make it easier, to cope.

So, after things wind down for me
and there's some time, I can afford;
I'll spend my new year remembering
to always, thank the Lord.