there was that time before
maybe a day or even a few days
a week, that time before it
happened, before the world
turned a corner, maybe a day like
today or could it be tomorrow,
funny isn’t it how normal
those days were, unremarkable,
just another 24 hours and then
it became the before,
another time, a memory
with a wall demarcating
the prior and the after,
the previous and the now,
the old and the new
like Sept 10 in 2001 was
just another fall day,
colorful and suggesting
the fall that was fast approaching
or can you recall Nov 7 in 2016
what you felt and assumed would
be the next day, a natural progression
from the years preceding or
can you even recall Christmas
in 2019 before The Corona
before humans stood naked
against an unseen threat
before we were reminded
that we control nothing
but our own reaction
to an altered world for
that is all we control,
the only part we may own.
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