The Day Before submission to citywide #coronavirus poetry writing w/ Poet Laurette Trapeta Mayson

Who are we to smile, when news is as close as the day before?

What about the faceless forms frozen by the day before?

Where are we to run when virus is more air and lead is more water than the day before?

When do we tell our children love was only for the day before?

Who are we to say we survived when we but withered while inside longing for the day before?

How are we to discuss forever and never and always and yesterday and tomorrow and tonight and the day before?

No answers.

-Jeannine