untitled covid poem

When mortality numbers decline

we won’t return

to how things were

to all our old routines

to old haunts and habits

There is no time machine

to go backwards

we have been remade

for a future we do not know

where past lives have no meaning

The universe pulls us

towards unity

don’t throw away your humanity

your empathy and kindness

or the future will have nothing for you

4-9-20