The First Teenth Year Of The Millennium Poem by Bashyam Narayanan

First teenth year of the millennium
A number with which
We normally do not want to be associated
But what to do, the number will be with us
The whole 365 days
We are mature enough to understand
That numbers do not, cannot, do a thing
It is we, the members of the society, do
As we used to do earlier
Let us welcome the New Year
With renewed hopes
With refined outlook
With redefined goals
With renovated skills
With regenerated resources
With rejuvenated youthfulness
With reinforced enthusiasm
With reaffirmed conviction
And take ourselves forward
Towards higher levels of
Love
Understanding
Compassion
Kindness
Fairness
Tolerance
Simplicity
Divinity
And other noble qualities
That will imbibe in you more altruism
And greater social acceptability
Let me not fail to wish you
A happy, prosperous, healthy new year 2013