DO you remember too?

Do you remember too?

The sun is out and shining not a

drop of rain in sight children are

outside playing flying different

colored kites couples holding

hands while walking down the

street whispering quietly to each

other smiling waiting for the night

flowers are blooming everywhere

spreading color across the globe

just like the beautiful rainbows

after a springtime thunderstorm

Friends are making plans for

destinations unknown, filled with

alcohol, white sanded beaches,

wearing nothing more than smiles

dancing underneath the stars

knowing what love is in my heart

yet having nobody to love or hold

memories flowing from the past

back when I was living in a much

different world looking out the

window to an emptiness that I

now see with streets devoid of

cars or people cruising down the

streets how long has it been since

the sickness came to be the one

called the Corona virus or COVID

nineteen was it nature who evolved

it causing man's new fate or was

man playing God again unleashing

the fury of hells evil hate are we

on the brink of ending the time of

mankind or standing on the

precibus of humanity's final stand

are we the victim of someone's

experiment that went terribly

wrong or are we the perpetrators

of all the hate and violence from

our ignorance of understanding

peace and love is it that we are

doomed to live in fear of ending up

In our own living hell has heaven

closed its gates with the last ring

of Saint Peter's sinners bell have

we been judged by a jury of angels

we once knew have our souls been

sentenced to me and you do you

Remember a better time in your

life or like me have forgotten too.

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

The end of a Poet's Journey