New Year Anytime

I sometimes wish friends a happy "personal new year" when they are celebrating their birthdays.  But I got to thinking, why stop there? When things haven't been going well, can't we just hit the figurative reset button anytime, return to "Go", tabula rasa?  This was my first in a series of New Year's cards, but now that I look at it, the "Twelve Months that have recently pass'd" could be anytime.  "Still, fill to the Future!...Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen."

Full text of the poem:

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast

and been bow'd to the earth with its fury;

To whom the Twelve Months that have recently pass'd

were as harsh as a prejudiced jury---

Still, fill to the Future!  And join in our chime,

the regrets of remembrance to cozen.

And having obtained a New Trial of Time

Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

Thomas Hood (1799-1845)