History Makers

Dublin City Library Wants Us To Show And Tell
If Living Life Under Lockdown
Is For You A Living Hell
Or Has It Become A Joy To Encounter
Each And Every Day
As The Pace Of Life Has Slowed Down
In Every City And Town
Are You One Of Our Frontline Medic
Who Battles Away Each Day
Fighting For Each Life, You Manage To Save
Stopping Another From An Early Grave
While Sitting With The Ones Who Are Too Far Gone
Have You Lost A Loved One, Grieving, Left Counting The Cost
Has Your Employment Gone And May Never Come Back
What Games Have You Played With Your Young
Disguising Fear As Fun
How Your Kitchen Table And Your Sitting Room Floor
Is Now Being Used To Forge Bonds
Make Precious Memories That Will Live On
If You Have To Cocoon
Do You Feel Safe
Or Like A Caterpillar
Have To Struggle Through
These Accounts And So Much More
They Want Us To Submit
In Letters, Emails, Photos, Homemade Art
Whatever Way You Do It
While Living Together Or Apart
How You Really Feel
What You Are Doing To Survive And Thrive
In This Pandemic Time, In Lockdown Covid 19
How We Live Through This
The Good, The Bad, The Happy, The Sad Times Spent
Will Be Captured, Recorded And Saved For All Time
Internalized Behind Glass
Our Stories Told, Our Voices Heard By Many, Long After We’ve Past

©Pauline Byrne 2020

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