A tower of brass isn’t
A choir of thousands isn’t
Both were the year that was
Good grief Beethoven’s 250
Toledo’s Blade isn’t sure
His music will last.
It isn’t so – is it?
The noise in the schools isn’t
The zoom that wasn’t is
The learning – maybe in the year that was –now isn’t?
The church that wasn’t is
The church that was, isn’t
The advent hymn isn’t
Real
Covid is: some say it isn’t
Priorities past gave remediation that wasn’t
Vaccine that wasn’t
But now may be
Leadership – at all levels isn’t
Peale, it wasn’t
Will they, and he be the year that was?
We all know that lasting, this isn’t
Coming may be leadership that wasn’t,
Honor and decency that wasn’t
Again may return
After the year that was
And in the immortal words of someone
So anonymous he nearly wasn’t
All passes; Art alone endures
The God that we thought wasn’t
Will help us rise again –
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