Rebirth

In February 2021, I had found a new lease on life and I was more positive about things. I wanted to encourage others to think more positively about things

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes

We have struggled hard, faces black, ashen

Surrounded by illness and misery

Millions pass with terminal injury

 

Our landscapes scarred with death and destruction

People, fauna, trees, felled in a ruction

Coronavirus, floods, and disasters

Destroying livelihoods, no laughter

 

Insurrection and inauguration

Global infection and vaccination

Is a global reckoning upon us?

Right wing populists looking awful suss

 

Like our ancestors from the ancient past

The enormous wisdom they have amassed

History repeats in different ways

Cyclical nature of the past ablaze

 

While fire is destructive in many ways

Life returns after every fiery blaze

For me, twenty-twenty was like a fire

Mostly without anything to inspire

 

Through all this incredible hurt and pain

Happiness will eventually reign

Tears of joy to replace those of sadness

As we return from this bizarre madness

 

Left listless, with negative emotions

I was bereft of viable options

My savior was a previous partner

David showed me here to this safe harbor

 

You have all welcomed me into your fold

Every team member, delights to behold

Other stresses have just melted away

Joining you all is like a meal gourmet

 

So we move into the year of the ox

We want bigger red packets, maybe red box!

Our lives will be better, vaccines coming

Elderly safer, more sales forthcoming

 

In twenty twenty one, go treat yourself

Don't hide on an emotional ice shelf

Look after your wellbeing and your needs

Don't get stuck in the mental widow's weeds

 

Everyone here is loved by another

Whether brother, father, sister, mother

You never know when you will need your friends

As they should know whence your pain, anguish stems

 

Spend time with your extended family

Even when they offend casually

Share your love with your family and friends

Tis the time to make filial amends

 

In closing this piece, I ask you to think

Sipping on your lovely fire pink fruit drink

Think positively about your futures

Look all around you like the owl, hooters

 

Reach out to one another, go support

Others, in their times of need, try to thwart

I ask you all to raise your cup or glass

Toast twenty twenty one being first class

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