Let us go back to the cave, this new year

Let us move forth

beyond the hypocrisy of New York Times Square's ball-dropping

of those screaming and yelling amidst confetti falling

More than just a night of fireworks in the sky, adorning,

Of drag racing,

Of disco-dancing

Of well-wishing

Of drunk-driving

And next, another year of national forgetting

... a nation in amnesia we are made to be in

Let us not forget what must lie ahead

As we retreat to the "cave"

To think of shadows on its wall

And to reflect upon the "doctrine of reminiscence"