Leave, Goodbye!

 

Hard to figure whether 2020 hosted us as

unwilling guests or if we hosted this gloomy

year and have found it wanting like a guest

you've seen enough of and hate the impulse that

moved you to tell it to drop around and you'll

hang out for awhile, just chilling. Finally the

world finds itself in agreement that this has been

the year no one wanted and couldn't even begin

to imagine. At its imminent departure fireworks

will illuminate the sky, balloons lift off in jubilant

colourful array, as noisemakers speed 2020 on its

way. Leave, goodbye, don't look back and never

think of returning. This has been an exceptional

year, one that will live on in memory though no

one wants to remember it, like a bad dream whose

nightmarish qualities followed us in every waking

hour, a villainous, sinister year whose entrance

gift was a wretched lethal plague that stopped the

world in its banal routines, imprisoning entire

unprepared populations, just a little spice added

to the excitement of a pestilence of locusts

deadly earthquakes and floods, wildfires and 

civil strife, landslides and volcanic eruptions.

Begone, you evil contender for recognition as 

history's most disastrous year of bleak mourning.