Good Riddance 2016!A Poem by COLLYMOREThe impact of 2016.By Stanley Collymore
To say that 2016 was an absolutely dreadful year would be a gross understatement on my part, and to me it’s abundantly clear that that concise evaluation of it isn’t by any means a gratuitous exaggeration of what the at last fortunately expired year that was 2016 actually and quite personally represented for me. For sadly throughout its entire existence I was hurtfully obliged to observe with my very eyes the inconsolable demise of numerous people who throughout my life in many and tangibly constructive ways have inspirationally fashioned the educative backdrop as well as permanently laid the firm foundations for me to positively embark on, additionally creatively develop the relevant means, and most essentially competently put in place the necessary mechanisms whereby I was resourcefully capable of being the person that I gladly am.
So many funerals in a single year of genuinely non-media hyped, often unknown and even unheard of by the MSM and as a result not the customary fare of fabricated media spin but all the same valid celebrities, as distinct from the standard spurious, so-called famous and socially invented and jumped up nonentity types, whose collective, most demoralizing and truly disconcerting passing truthfully made their quite grateful recipients of unstinting hope and dedicated admirers keenly wishing to go with them all on their Celestial journey home to be in the company of their gracious Saviour and Almighty God; and me yearning, though not in any way feeling forced to take my own life which religiously to me is a serious mortal sin, that I too could in actuality be a part of them!
© Stanley V. Collymore 10 January 2017.
Author’s Comments: With each year that passes those of us who’ve survived the outgoing one’s demise and accordingly acknowledge the incoming one with a mixture of emotions ranging from joy, huge expectations and even trepidation, the previous and now defunct year is itself invariably viewed by many with its own amalgamation of enlivening nostalgia, sorrow or regret at its passing and even considerable relief too that what they regarded as a pretty dreadful year is no longer here.
However, there’s no escaping the fact that in terms of calamities, personal or otherwise, 2016 won’t be easily forgotten and for many globally will always conjure up very painful memories. Let’s hope therefore that if you’re among the latter the passage of time will be for you a healing balm. © 2017 COLLYMORE |
StatsAuthorCOLLYMORECambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomAboutAcademic, Journalist, Writer. I'm a highly intelligent, articulate and well-educated human being with an intuitive but enterprising sense of responsibility and a strong moral compass that instincti.. more..Writing
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