Happy 2022 Everyone!
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For my annual diatribe read ahead. I really have not much to recap this year, though. There are more personal or local memories than global / national ones currently.
2021 - Goodbye time is at last here
You gave us hope and so much fear
You carried the 2020 legacy
You built on the pandemic driving us crazy
As more vaccines arrive in the market
More variants continue the lockdown effect.
Each time we thought the wave was done
You gave us a grander, newish one.
You have changed forever some of our industries
Not that it helped address climate change activities.
Ripples will be felt for many a generation
As school children seem to socialise and learn have forgotten.
Resilience is a word that we learnt to live
We again saw medics give and give.
Essential workers have been our heroes
Sanitation workers, teachers, couriers - each the world so much owes.
As families were locked in, neighbours stepped in
A new society, new ways perhaps has set in
Our world has both contracted and expanded
Home and work can they ever be now be separated?
Protests work proved farmers as they fought steadily
The Left is still the choice of the Keralite and the Bengali
Sports is still dominated by news of Kohli
21 years later Ms Universe is from India happily.
Taliban rule in Afghanistan - a blow to democracy
The attempted coup in America - more evidence of fragility.
2021 you have not been kind,
There is so much to tell, but no words I find
As cases rise, we are never free
Of the vaccines and boosters' unending story
Events galore and yet just one lore
Covid-19 is still at the fore
Omicron, RTPCR, lockdown, section 144, isolation
These words have become a part of everyday conversation.
We are so weary as we ring you out
We so very much want to the pandemic rout.
2022, may you bring us cheer
May we see in-person our near and dear
May the world be healthy and safe
May education never ever again await
May peace and prosperity reach all
May happiness be your clarion call.
- Written on 31 December 2021.
- Self-explanatory. I am so very tired. I had a million events (it seemed) to record and I lost the thread as Omicron cases kept rising.
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