IF I LOSE THE PLANET
Losing Earth was harsh;
First we lost the sun…
We had warmth, but did not know from where;
The moon had a shadow, and it did provide light.
Maybe it kept the warmth, or the planet was warmed…
generations ago.
It’s 2120, and one hundred years ago,
my grandfather was born into a virus;
he never got it …
neither did his parents.
They were lucky, safe.
Resilient, perhaps?
He told me, for years…
How Earth had light …
And light had no sound.
His parents were deaf,
so they also had no sound.
He taught me to hear inside;
as he was taught by them.
We will travel out, if we have to…
I wonder if the sun still exists?
Somewhere, it must.
For I know, if it is remembered;
it still is.
And I still feel it.
I was born the day before
the Moon Shadow phase.
I remember the Sun.
I feel I heard it.
It had a sound for me.
Not anymore.
Interesting take on the prompt and the pandemic – forward, looking back…