There is No Going Back, a poem in the time of Covid

There is no going back,

Our heroes are dead.

We are our own heroes now.

There is no going back.

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There is no going back,

The tides are swallowing us,

A virus is choking us,

Our “leaders” are killing us.

There is no going back.

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There is no going back,

You can’t get something back

that you never had.

So many don’t know this,

and too many don’t care.

There is no going back.

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There is no going back,

A murdered mass has found its voice,

and torn down monuments to lies.

The truth is too loud to drown out anymore.

There is no going back.

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There is no going back,

Evil cannot be ignored,

Evil is now the judge and jury,

and it’s time to burn down the courthouse!

There is no going back.

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There is no going back.

Only a fool would look to the past,

and only a coward would run toward it.

There is no going back.

Grieve and make your peace now,

There is no going back.