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00:00 01/01/17

The new year has arrived; time for the past year in review.

Some are surprised we survived; “this was a year to eschew.”

 

One day ago. The year ended in incredible fashion

With indelible passion exploding like fireworks, the last bastion

Of hope and unity in a divided community cold and ashen.

 

A week ago. Our silver bells rang from the stoops to the tops of our snow-laden roofs

As the kids played in true holiday spirit. Skeptics of magic, here was the proof.

But the holiday cheer was met with holiday tears:

The force of tragedy struck with a coarse, maddening luck.

Vultures swooped down upon pop-culture run sadly amok.

 

A month ago. Promising trials of an Ebola vaccine meant sufferers could be inoculated.

 

Two months ago. A peace between Colombia and rebels was signed once created.

The unemployment rate fell to 4.6 percent.

With the election of Harris, Jayapal, and Masato, progress cemented

And presented to the nation a concrete foundation on which to build contented representation.

 

Five months ago. Rio became the center of the world.

The world whirled around the American girl, Simone Biles

With the chrome smile and the gold medals.

Old levels and records were broken in golden sport spectacle.

The wonder of Phelps felt three-dimensional. Usain and Jamaica bolted to the pedestal.

 

Six months ago. We were blessed with a Nemo successor.

A pantheon of super men were reborn in a zephyr.

DC-- the marble capital of creativity or the garbled swamp of declivity with a Nero oppressor?

 

Eight months ago. Secretary Kerry journeyed to the memorial park in Hiroshima.

Minister Kishida and other leaders left wreaths at the scene, a unifying idea.

 

One year ago. The US laid sanctions against Russia for intervening in Crimea.

One year ago. Missiles were launched into the Sea of Japan by North Korea.

One year ago. We heard the clap of cosmic juggernauts colliding a billion years ago,

Which one year ago produced waves that gave scientists the evidence they

craved to show

That the century-old theory of relativity, which bucked the status quo,

Was true. Space and time were connected with galactic glue.

 

One year ago. The water crisis in Flint reached its boiling point when Obama declared emergency.

One year ago. The urgency of the situation at hand was clear, as the crisis had gone on for two years.

What was unclear was the water with more lead in it than a Roman potter.

 

One year ago. I learned.

“Banal,” you burned.

One year ago. I learned that every year has its twists and turns.

So before some of us quickly burn last year, place its ashes in an urn and cheer,

Yearning for a better year

To worm itself through lesser smear

And filth and dreams which wilt and seem to be unclear,

 

Know that in a world of derision, division, sedition, and submission,

I envision better decisions in the future.

That the wounds would be sutured.

That the cuts would be soothed with healing humor,

And our hope wouldn’t be neutered.

 

One year will go.

This year. I hope.

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FutureEnsign2017

This is my first poem on this site. I express how my 2016 year has been, its effects on me, my family, and the world.

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