The world has been given yet another clean slate
to try and do it all over again.
Erasing all of its past mistakes
of bad beginnings and their ends.

Sewing up or just placing some emotional patches
on life's frayed clothing that was worn.
Stitch by stitch, life's thread by thread
our future lives to be reformed.

The slate is hard sometimes for some to write on
skipping over the cracks of where they've written.
But wiped clean we can all start again
every letter now on our slate
perfectly placed and better fittin.

Linda Winchell

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/clean-slate-5/