GOODBYE 2-0-1-6

GOODBYE 2-0-1-6.

Going! Going! 2016 is Gone.

A leap year of trouble, pains,
cries, crises, and surprises;
a year of unforgettable
happenings,
the year fortune tellers
failed to predict accurately,
the year crystal balls
floundered, then foundered,
2016-the heartbeat of-
21^st century.

Zika virus-your first gift to
the world of mankind,
to torment and to inflict pain,
at the time Syrians were, and
still dying from war caused by
greed;
in the world only sixty-two souls
control world half resources and
wealth.

Regardless of peace meeting
between pope and patriarch,
later with Sunni grand imam,
Havana Declaration did not
deter leeches-as their swords,
bayonets, and lances keep
drawing and sucking
blood of innocent souls.

Yes-innocent souls from
around the globe,
just as earthquakes, economic
crises, pestilence, and  
political quandary
aggravate already
pain-bearing people's condition,
worldwide.

Surprises-yes-bombshells,
Twenty-Sixteen sprang
eleven million Panama papers on
two hundred thousand
offshore entities released,
world stunned;
still in stupor of shell companies’
owners,
Britain shocked the world-
not by invention or scientific
breakthrough-
but through a referendum
to exit European Union.

Brexit becomes a new vocabulary
in English lexicon-a new word-
synonymous with exit or
departure;
Juno-spacecraft to Jupiter-
NASA launched,
data and image gathering
satellite,
fastest moving man-made
object in history.

From four corners of the earth
disputes and crises came,
South China Sea dispute
nearly led to war among
six nations over spratly 
islands,
failed coup in Turkey thinned out
fragile peace brokered by
world leaders.

Terrorism, the-seven-point-eight-meter,

Ecuador earthquake, storms, floods
landslides, and “notorious” Ebola,  
Egyptian flight 804 crash, and
multiple man-made disasters
heralded first South American
Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro.

Uri attack on Indian soldiers-
in India-administered-Kashmir-
region,
North Korea’s biggest nuclear
test,
impeachment of both
Brazilian and South Korean
presidents summarized 2016’s
political instability.

Eleven individuals-
Swedish Academy-announced
for 2016 Nobel awards,
Bob Dylan-American
songwriter, singer, and
artist received Nobel Prize
in literature,
a great departure from
more than a century old
tradition.

“Nobelpriset i litteratur”
is awarded annually to  
authors in the field of
literature-“den som inom
litteraturen har…”

Twenty-Sixteen witnessed

tens of thousands of
elections, globally;
however, United States-
November 8-
Presidential Elections
rattled the world.

Unexpected happened
political earthquake of
three hundred six electoral
votes earned-a billionaire
entertainment-promoter-
four-year-occupancy-in
White House.

A complete departure from
American political system-
where known political
heavyweights-red or blue-
after thorough horse-trading
makes it to the White House.

Like a thunderbolt,
inside and out United States,
fallout from 2016 elections have
generated strong rhetoric among
red and blue supporters,
Russian-American
diplomatic row,
Israeli-American petulant,
perhaps pugnacious in
recent times.

Unresolved Israeli-Palestinian
peace deal for a two state
settlement,
pro-and-anti-Iran-
Nuclear-deal in
Washington DC,
pro-and-anti-Semitic
sentiments, ISIS’s and
affiliates’ global terror network,
world economic decline,
moral breach or breakdown, and
political uprisings in one place after
another.

What is our demand and
request from 2016?
Go! Go! Please, Go!
2016.
Let every living soul say:
Goodbye to 2-0-1-6.

Map Credit and Source:
www.mapsofworld.com/events/year-2016.

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