Ode To 2020

a poem

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Goodbye 2020, a year that once contained the same hope that the turn of a calendar page promises.

Hello 2021. Dare we look forward to something better?
Hope during a pandemic can perhaps be misplaced, and leave us drowning in disappointment.

What choice do we have? Without hope we are doomed.
We must seek the light that surely exists beyond the darkness; the light of tomorrow yet unseen.

Happy New Year may not be an appropriate greeting for this beginning. Following the immense amount of strife and challenge last year, an alternative begs us moving forward.

Let us all be grateful for simply being. We made it.
And perhaps let us put ‘happy’ on reserve and search for peace instead: personal peace and world peace — a calm that honours all.

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Peaceful New Year to all — bringing us new light