Irrelevant

Recovery always happens faster then you think.

I remembered when Mount St. Helens blew in 1980

people predicted the wasteland

would last for centuries

now it is lush with trees.

So it is with all things.

So many events

where it was said

our lives will never be the same

but they go back to the same

and we forget and get on with life.

No one remembers 9-11

much less the assassination of JFK

or that AIDS has stolen 37.5 million

the best actors, artists, designers, musicians, writers.

We recover

and with recovery comes forgetting

how it was

as our lives grow busy

back to the everyday.

50 years from now

the year of covid will be

like our grandfathers memories of WWII

not so interesting or relevant.

Nothing to do with life in 2071.