Remember, remember, New Year — Old You. The flames that you’ve nourished? Keep carrying them through.

Do not ever forget them, For the time is a river. And not all of your fire Will survive its cold shimmer.

Remember, remember, The battles you’d fought, The ones that have taught you To tell sugar from salt.

Do not ever forget, Just how far you have leapt. How much you’ve accomplished Through the tears you have wept.

Remember, remember, Just where you came from, To sincerely behold What a Sun you’ve become.

Do not ever forget, The old grief you have crossed, The struggles, the fears… Things you’ve found, things you’ve lost.

Remember remember, Those scars? They’re not new. Keep wearing them proudly, Unbreakable You.