Covid hit hard

Strangers and families in the backyard

Distant figures sharing pints

One of many rare sights

 

"Only those that lost still remember"

Painful deaths lost to the never

A different dimension for most

Yet the ghosts that linger are loved the most

 

Will you speak of it?

In schools, clubs and gatherings just a bit?

Not a word refering to it can be spoken it seems

But the millions that lost still live it in their dreams

 

So how will you remember covid as anniversary's pass?

With an uncomfortable shudder from the past?

Long days of pain and suffering all but forgotten

With memories fading, dying and left to rotten