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Optimistic About the Future

Christmas is over for another full year
And I am ready to shift into high gear
Hoping 2022 will bring lots of good cheer
What’s that? Did I hear a sarcastic jeer?
Hoping an end to this Covid is near …,
And we will no longer be living in fear.

I am rather optimistic about the future,
Thinking it will have a redeeming feature
Be an enabler for the good of our culture,
Show the better side of our human nature.

written December 25, 2021

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Caren Krutsinger Date: 12/28/2021 4:00:00 AM These last two lines are wonderful "Be an enabler for the good of our culture, Show the better side of our human nature." Login to Reply L Milton Hankins Date: 12/28/2021 7:42:00 AM Thanks, Caren, I liked those lines, too...uh, but I wrote them!

Victor Buhagiar Date: 12/26/2021 6:34:00 AM I too was optimistic about the future that we would become friends. Login to Reply L Milton Hankins Date: 12/26/2021 9:30:00 AM Well thank you, Victor. Yes, I think we ARE friends! I really appreciate your thoughts on my poems, and I enjoy reading yours.

Shirley Hawkins Date: 12/25/2021 9:04:00 PM We can live in hopes for a brighter future for all. I agree with your Monorhyme, The last four lines especially. Great write, Milt. Take care. Shirley. Login to Reply L Milton Hankins Date: 12/25/2021 9:49:00 PM Shirley, thanks so much! I hope you had a Merry Christmas!

Sally Eslinger Date: 12/25/2021 7:33:00 PM A wonderful, guiding show of your pen! I have too many grandchildren and other lovely known youth to lose my optimism and efforts now. God bless us all…and keep inspiring your pen! Xoxo sally Login to Reply L Milton Hankins Date: 12/25/2021 9:50:00 PM It is always so nice to read your comments, Sally. Hope you had a Merry Christmas!

Eve Roper Date: 12/25/2021 6:24:00 PM I pray that there will be an end to Covid, but I don't see it in the future. my grandbaby and I first got it before anyone knew it was here and " I " was totally sick for almost a month. Both of us were misdiagnosed 3 different times my grandbaby twice. Then in Dec. I got sick with acute Pancreatitis and was diagnosed with asthmatic covid. I was mad because I didn't have the symptoms. Not only was I quarantine in the hospital, but returned home for another 28 more days I tested positive again twice Login to Reply L Milton Hankins Date: 12/25/2021 9:51:00 PM Good. So glad to hear that! I got 2 Moderna and 1 Booster Moderna. Then, I got my regular flu shot. Eve Roper Date: 12/25/2021 7:40:00 PM I felt to say as soon as the 90 days were up from point A, I got all 3 shots , Moderna L Milton Hankins Date: 12/25/2021 6:37:00 PM Oh, Eve, I am so sorry you had to go through that horrifying experience. I think, for much of the time period, many doctors were struggling with what little information they had and doing their best, but, as we know, many came up short (as in your case). I lost a good friend (I am sure to Covid) long before it was acknowledged as being here in the U.S. His symptoms were exactly like those later described as Covid. He seemed to have a very bad flu, but was dead within a week or two. I still don't think we know it all, but I'm convinced the vaccines are making a positive difference.