So you really thought I had gone away?
I took your kid’s education, that Fourth of July picnic you loved so much and Grandma from the nursing home.
Gone away?
I destroyed businesses, put people out of work and elected a President.
Gone away?
You wore your masks, practiced your social distancing and even discovered soap and water. You hurried a vaccine that only God knows the side effects. Yes, you’re smiling now, but am I really gone away or just
Waiting?
O.M.G! I have thought this so often! I love the personification and the snooty powerful airs of the pandemic here. Yes, it did do all those things! Yikes…
Denise. I have always been inspired by Carl Sandburg, whom I focused my first and last poem on. I try to let the reader feel the reality of the moment with no misunderstandings and very little room for interpretation. I know it is contrary to most of the Marathoners but it seemed to work for CS and it , hopefully, has worked for me.
Mahalo for your kind words.
Bill