New Year, 2017
by John Gohorry
Fri 6th Jan 2017

Hope looks like this
- a festive explosion
in which no-one is injured,
a city set alight
with celebratory rockets
launched from the river
as the music plays,
and a new-born child
being brought home next day
through the shell-filled streets
in which folk still hold hands,
remembering how they drank
from the cup of kindness
and discover to their delight
it cannot be drained.