Auld lang syne
    after the midnight of 31st December 2016
    the world stopped short
    the New Year to usher in--

    every past century met its end
    hopes blown to the wind
    'A happier world we seek'
     a slogan on every heart pinned

     only to come into rude wakening
     for man's nature would not change
     power, greed, violence, conflict and war
     was the bane of the times---strange

     in the midst of so-called progress
     and mankind claiming to have come
     to its own?  To the same cry of despair
     the tragedy and the desolation to succumb

     2017 will lead to year 3000 before long
    what would be the outcome?
     the century is sinking fast--verily--
     a thousand times worse would be the sum

     the young would no longer have dreams
    the old would have seen it all and be emotionally dumb
    nature would have been dehumanised and lost all her beauty
    savagery and destruction would replace every calm.