In a few hours, 2016 will be consigned to the history books. In some parts of course it has already passed and much of the world is asleep in 2017. It has been an interesting year in the Chinese curse sense. Health issues apart, the rise of the right wing both here and abroad have raised spectres that most of us would like to forget, and now we have increased antagonism between the superpowers, fighting like children over their toys.
The world should be uniting, there re so many problems that we face as a species and yet we continue along ridiculous isolationist pathways. The likes of Nicola Sturgeon have set in motion a very dangerous and undesirable cascade.
I wish my reader a happy New year. It is being delayed by a second but the inevitable will arrive for most of us just after midnight. I don't suppose that 2017 will be much better for the planet than this one has been but we can still hope that people start thinking again.
At Sunset (Im Abendrot)
We've walked, hand in hand,
thought hardship and joy,
Now we both rest
from walking across the silent countryside.
All around us the valleys are fading,
it has already become dark. Just two larks are rising,
dreamlike into the heavens.
Stand here and let them fly about,
it will soon be time to sleep,
lest we go astray
in this loneliness.
Oh further, silent peace!
So profound at sunset.
How tired we are of travelling:
Is this perhaps death?
thought hardship and joy,
Now we both rest
from walking across the silent countryside.
All around us the valleys are fading,
it has already become dark. Just two larks are rising,
dreamlike into the heavens.
Stand here and let them fly about,
it will soon be time to sleep,
lest we go astray
in this loneliness.
Oh further, silent peace!
So profound at sunset.
How tired we are of travelling:
Is this perhaps death?
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