BYE BYE 2020
For 20 years and even more – I’ve looked back on each year
Summing up the essence like a “know it all” type seer
Focusing on politics but spreading out on issues
The highlights and the lowlights which made me reach for tissues
But the 2020 apocalypse attacked our sense of “norm”
And nothing that went on this year – in any way conform-ed
The masks we wore – the distancing – the loss of hugs and touch
To fierce opposing core beliefs the populace did clutch
The year was fraught with deep despair – divisiveness up front
Civility had disappeared – no nuance – only blunt!
Funerals and weddings, graduations and good stuff
Just slipped by, sometimes on zoom – that had to be enough
Memorial Day, July the Fourth and Labor day all passed
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Birthdays left us all aghast!
Each of us is living in a lock-up world so blistery
We’ll tell it all to future “gens” – about our days of history
And then of course the politics, no precedence reflected
A leader who went AWOL when he didn’t get elected
So the only thing we know to do when gloom and doom hits town
Is to focus on that half full glass – and to ignore the “Hapless Clown”
Much in twenty- twenty-one portends a better future
The wounds of past we’ll leave for Joe and Kamala to suture
Lessons learned will overflow for students to absorb
May all of us eschew a cult – that sucks us in its orb
Farewell oh 2020 – Be Gone! Be Gone! Be Gone!
“Normal”s looking pretty good – we don’t need a “phenomenon”
(p.s. Maybe could we just skip to 2022?)