That Most Important One Thing

For a “Happily ever-after”…

Unsplash Pico Do Arieiro, Portugal

Here’s the Thing 

Once upon a not-so-long-ago time

My views were mine

and yours were thine

And how you voted wasn’t business of mine.

No news was breaking

Whether real or faking

of pent-up white anger and hate.

How did getting justice for all get less important

than the location of where any someone last ate?

COVID was a cruelly …