If Anything Happens
If Anything Happens

But So Much Already Has

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When we think about yesterday,

we will only remember Covid.

We’ll forget the pages before that,

stories of terror and heartbreak,

tragedy, so much tragedy.

We won’t remember.

Maybe, we don’t want to remember.

We rather better memories, happier times,

but when were those times?

So many lives have been destroyed.

They’re still being destroyed,

and we’re still trying to survive.

We are hoping

that if we hold on,

push ourselves to tomorrow,

we’ll find those times again,

those moments of happiness and love

and not despair or tragedy.

We have known so much pain,

and we do deserve a time,

where we are free from it.

Maybe, that time is tomorrow,

but we must not forget yesterday.

This poem was inspired by If anything happens I love you.
['Melissa R. Mendelson']
['Yesterday', 'Covid 19', 'A Few Words', 'Poetry', 'School Shootings']