Gordon Dean Schlundt - At The Same Instant

At the midnight hour
The Old Year
Drifts into history
On the cold Illinois mist,
Breaking all its promises.

At the same instant,
The New Year drifts in,
Through banks of fog and frost
On the cold Illinois mist,
With all the same old promises.

Gordon Dean Schlundt

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