A New Year Poem by HAKAM ABUBAKAR

I've gone through a mental voyage

Into the glorious past and its pages

This wouldn't have been on any other day

Than that of the new year's inception: today

We're done with everything for the old year

Hence we can proclaim this without fear

As the new year starts to breed situations

We've also gotten to aim at perfection

Meanwhile God shall bring changes unforeseen

Changes that never before have been

With resolutions at the hearts of you and I

Countless obstructions we shall pass by

If perchance your hope is renewed

After this piece you've had to view

Then yours is to have a candid speculation

And a plan, an impact for coming generations

See! Through the joy of little things

The mercy and benevolence of human beings

The bounties that this year has for us

The assurance that God for us has

Indeed! Wherever light of day shall be seen

And darkness of the nights set in

There is where our raptures shall exist

There is where our victory shall persist.