I know 2020 has been a dumpster fire of a year, I know it has...

I know 2020 has been a dumpster fire of a year, I know it has been more than we ever thought we could handle.  I remember when it wasn’t this, I remember when there was something that resembled stillness.  Do you?

Typewriter Series #3041 by Tyler Knott Gregson

Remember when your hands weren’t tired,
weren’t cracked like desert floor?
Remember when you woke fresh,
remember when your lungs were full,
remember arms and how they wrapped
around you?
Amnesia like a curtain pulled,
privacy screen for all this
forgetting,
remember when we were not
afraid?  

Half a year I’ve not left this state,
wrapped in the borders
like straightjacket, remember when
our days weren’t recycled,
remember peace, and how it
grew when it was shared?  

Will I see you on the other side
of this?  Will I remember you
if I do?

-Tyler Knott Gregson-