Hurrah - let's welcome January the First

If nothing else - it's not the worst

Of New Year Days that's ever been

Looking back at what this world has seen.

 

Twenty twenty saw lots of plenty

But not the sort the cognoscenti

Of healthy living would have chosen -

An invader that lingered as if frozen

 

In time that seemed interminable

To become something abominable

But adversity saw courage cause

Discoveries to make infection pause

 

And seem to show a weakness there

That offered hope that this would share

Between the now and times to come

The armour of protection that in sum

 

Will see the plague be shown the door

With us free from its grip for evermore.

So - let's welcome twenty twenty one

Like a bright new dawn and its life-giving sun.

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