Pretend

 

This poem criticizes those that go around with blinders on, ignoring reality, at the price of endangering those they love.  

Thanks for coming by to read.

 

Let’s pretend that it’s normal,

That things are okay,

And that masks and vaccines

Are not needed, today.

Let’s say, that we’re safe,

And pretend that we’re fine,

And not worry, how close

We are standing, in line.

 

Let’s share the same classroom,

And breathe the same air–

Saluting the Freedoms

We’re lucky to share–

And take First Day pictures,

And pile on a bus,

And hope, that the virus

Won’t get all of us.

 

While the world’s in a panic

And nurses all quit,

Burned out, cause they’re endlessly

Burdened by it,

Let us send off our children,

Put them to the test,

Little lambs to the slaughter.

 

And hope for the best.

 

Copyright 2021 Andrea LeDew

 

For a poem that insists we honor the dead by doing everything we can to protect the living, read The Five Hundred Thousand.

For a poem about the power of suggestion(or lack of it) read Just a Suggestion.