2014 Year In Review

Another year finally comes to a close

Father Time is moving as fast as he can to hand over the 2015 show

The newborn year with all the chaos is having second thoughts

So much chaos on the planet wondering what the future will plot

A Winter Olympics to showcase Putin’s Sochi resort

A veneer of peace and harmony which soon in the Crimea and Ukraine would be cut short

Russian troops on the move with an energy stranglehold on the EEC

The old Bear flexing claws against those in the East desiring to be free

Even a civilian airliner was shot out of the sky

While on the ground civilians in large numbers continued to die

From our President more speeches, more golf,  some sanctions like minute slaps on the wrist

In a more dangerous world our President still seems to lack the will to the forces of evil resist

Cutting and running in Iraq so ISIS could large junks of Iraq and Syria seize

While beheading the “unfaithful” by this group so ineptly labeled the JVs

More golf, more speeches and some gnat like air strikes

But little heavy weapons for the Kurds that are fighting for their lives

Iran continues on its march to obtain some nukes

Despite universal condemnation and universal rebuke

The war on fossil fuel continues without let up or fade

Although fewer Blues in the fall received a reelection grade

Scandal upon scandal from the VA to the IRS

Finally our President is losing the millennials and the mainstream press

Police shootings of unarmed black males, riots in the streets, shops burned to the ground

What will it take to turn this economic ship of state finally around?

The answers may not be apparent but this nation still possesses a resilient thread

Even as the Chinese economy is surging ahead

If we can somehow put the Feds on a starvation diet of new regs

Our New Yyear babe might prove to have some very strong legs

If our imperial president in his final two years of his term

Of the compromise style of LBJ or Reagan he would try to learn

We might actually find adults in the room as opposed to ideologues

We just might not get mired down in the gridlock bog

Hope springs eternal in the American soul and mind

Let’s hope so as we finally leave 2014 behind.

At least the Cardinal won its bowl game and oil prices are taking a nose dive

In 2015 we might actually prosper as opposed to just trying to survive.

© December 31, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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