Hope Blooms: A Poem
The pandemic entered with the previous year’s “Ides of March”, boldly carousing ... random and ravishing..
It tried to stop everything and anything in its way that it could..
-But It could not Stop
Faith.
It made people afraid,
with feverish anxiety...
-But it could not Stop Love
It forced people to stay apart from one another...
- But It could not Stop Closeness
It ruthlessly tore through the streets ...
-But it could not Stop
Peace
It turned the world topsy turvey,
- But it could not Stop the world from Spinning
It darkened our special places like perpetual night..
-But it could not Stop
the Stars from shining
It flourished like a group of shadows..
-But it could not Stop
the Living
It sowed doubt into
peoples’ souls with an infectious sneer,
-But it could not Stop Hope
And finally, weakened, it reluctantly
tried to replant itself, -But beheld the glory
And promise of
April’s Cherry
blossoms...
-and it simply could
not
Stop them from
blooming.