Welcom 2017

Dear 2017, I welcome you to our blessed planet earth, from your God given and gracious abode In a few short days, you will arrive in full armor You will bring us winter, spring, fall, and also summer And like all the years preceding you, you too will be unique It is hoped that more peace will appear before your 52nd week I know that you will be well prepared to do your very best Please be aware that to your God and mine, I am making my request Your sun will continue to rise and set at its God-appointed times I’m asking that the Lord will allow you to bring us shorter refugee lines I’m praying that in your year God will spare us of so much inner city crime Perhaps before 2018, we will be blessed with harmony and more love to find May you bring us people willing to beat their swords into plowshares May the children in 2017 realize that someone loves them and truly cares May your days be accompanied with more rain and less pain May you bring us people with more to give and less to gain O, 2017, I just wanted to inform you that there were many in 2016 who experienced the awful agony of defeat And I also wanted you to understand that these will need lots of compassion and aid to return to their feet I well understand that you neither create trouble nor heal a single wound I wanted you to hear my request to God that you bring less doom and gloom 12282016 PS Contest, Welcome 2017, Nayda Ivette Negron 3rd Pl.