Marjorie Moorhead
Before It Goes, Remember
Remember when you could sleep
at the end of day, with expectation
that upon rise,
our world would be okay
When you felt a sense
of balance under your feet;
connection to earth and sky
Because they were alive
and well. And you could tell that
from abundance. Birds in the air,
flowers in the field, bees in the hive
Remember
when clouds were clouds
and not hovering doom
foretelling fire storms, flood,
Polar ice ablation
Remember when you felt we were marching
toward Justice
maybe too slowly but at least
in that direction
When you believed
in election
being fair and true representation
without question.
—Submitted on 09/27/2020
Marjorie Moorhead is the author of the chapbooks Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (Finishing Line Press 2019), and Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees (Duck Lake Books 2020). Her poems have appeared in Sheila-Na-Gig, Porter House Review, Verse-Virtual, Rising Phoenix Review, Amethyst Review, and other journals, as well as in several anthologies, including most recently Covid Spring (Hobblebush Books, 2020).
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