When Things Get Back to Normal

When things get back to normal

we will go for coffee, eat at a restaurant, see a movie

when things get back to normal

we’ll take a road trip, walk the seashore, hike a trail when things

get back to normal

we will go to Paris, Venice, or perhaps Mexico

swim with the dolphins and paddle with the whales when things

get back to normal         

we will be different, better, wiser

we will move on, let go, and start anew

we will forget when things

get back to normal

the isolation, the fear, the encroaching horror

the endless washing of hands, the empty shelves, the two

metre wave and the devastation of Italy.

We will forget New York, the lack of facemasks, ventilators and

goggles, closed shops and restaurants, parks and beaches.

Mostly we will forget that not everyone had the ability to isolate,

to stay at home or pay the bills. That not everyone had

internet or food in the pantry.  That loneliness and

addiction, suicide and hunger were with us then and still remain.

When things

get back

to normal

we will

live and laugh and dance and celebrate and

forget

that we were the privileged few.

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