A time to rejoice,soft and warm
  Looking at an entire year gone
  I have stopped myself from getting lost
  In a swirling mist of trecherous thoughts

  Some nights dark, my sheets all cold
  Feeble attempts on a life to hold
  Some tears and smiles, a beating heart
  Clinging to hope, when clouds depart

  I breath in deep, the promise in air
  Of times ahead when I can stare
  And my heart can tell me to go ahead
  Touch my face, my tears unshed

  A slip of time makes and breaks
  A show of strength or a toss of fate
  A minute of courage is easy to find
  Stretch it longer, it's lost in time

                                                                   Shruti Anand Prada