Here’s to 12 months of grit, struggle & accomplishment
The way we were worn out
Reborn and burned out
The way the world smoked
And the globe rolled
It was a year of swearing
in a new form of American President
A year of maniacal
flexing of nuclear muscle
of North Korea & ballistic missiles
While unbearably-serious Syria
Left us flabbergasted yet again
With airstrikes and indifference
All the while world-strife
Left not a single eye
dry in the whole place…
2017, you gave us the great
American eclipse of late August
Plus Hurricane Harvey along-with
his 200-billion-dollar service fee
Then came his fierce Cousin Irma
Leaving all that was learned
in the water's rare rage
Not to mention the Mexico City earthquake
And yet beyond the live-stream of global tragedies
We turn to the personal strata
- the small victories
of our most deliberate days
And we raise a L’chaim to the ways
we got more accustomed to
loving each other this year...
To the survival of the kindest
that still holds sway.
Here's to life's quiet triumphs
that so persistently accumulate
2017 - You have made us wiser and more humble
More troubled, more serene
Now on to a whole new l'chaim
to ‘18