2020

By Susan Belton

Six feet apart please. Flatten the curve.

Social distancing,

Drive thru, pick up or take out only.

Covid hours.

These ae just a few examples of 

The new “normal”.

What will that turn out to be?

Only time will tell.

All that can be said is that 

What once was will no longer be.

We will never go back,

Never again will a hug be just a hug

Now it is a potential for infection.

Never more will a handshake make a hello

Now it might be a fist bump (if you feel lucky).

Bridges have been burned,

Some of them needed to be.

It is a Brave New World that we find ourselves in.

Down the rabbit hole we dove.

What will become of society?

Only time will tell.

I pray for peace, 

I hope for humanity.

By Susan Belton