good riddance

 

today i am sensing the feelings of the sunflower

who in the morning awaits the sun to rise above

the horizon and hover o’er, be touched by the

warmth of its sunray fingers

 

feel a sense of relief like a balloon whose air has

been released and a big sigh of pleasure follows

while it flails about in the azure sky until slowly

and gently it is welcomed back to earth

 

like an eagle soaring o’er the valley, river and tree

and with a tilted crown and nurturing eye set upon

the nest it has lovingly perched on a sturdy limb

below where wide-open beaks await mother’s feed

 

a bittersweet of subtle joy comes o’er me today, for

i feel a relief from a portentous ill that has enveloped

my being in the last four years and has put a strain

on my spirit, my emotions and heart

 

i have shed more than four hundred thousand tears,

have lamented with many ‘Mamasitas’/Mothers,

wherefore, their children have been ripped from their

arms and whose hearts were and are torn apart

 

we’ll now share in our tears and little by little, relieve

our fears, say good riddance to the bastion of pain and

evil, embrace each other at a distance, rid us of two

 evils; an insidious pandemic and one personified