In our personal lives,
it takes
less than a second
to make
the decision
that unleashes
the pandemic
which defies
vaccination.
But even with
hindsight expanding
our compassion,
we question
how much longer the forgetting
will take. It seems
that wishing,
as we did, when
we were young
and health
was given
for such
stable, contiguous,
durable lives
might have been
our first
mistake.
