We will tell them about being alone.
We will tell them about the origins, the warnings, the surreality, the grief.
We will tell them about where we were when we finally realized that life was going to change forever.
God & Man
We will tell them about whole cities cheering for their medical staff each night at dusk.
We will tell them that we couldnt hug our loved ones.
We will tell them about the urgency, the quiet, the life-changing, deafening stillness.
We will tell them that everyone wore a mask.
We will tell them that it was too hard to read the news.
We will tell them that every store shut down at once.
We will tell them that more people lost their jobs in one week than they had in decades combined.
We will tell them that we got checks in the mail.
We will tell them about the empty shelves.
We will tell them of the cancelled weddings.
We will tell them about having virtual parties.
We will tell them that lives were lost.
We will tell them that more were spared.
We will tell them that, at the beginning, nobody believed it would be this big.
We will tell them how, slowly, we realized we were wrong.
We will tell them that the way that a virus can spread is paralyzingly scary.
We will tell them that the world as they know it now did not always exist this way.
We will tell them that what is commonplace now was inventive then.
We will tell them about the helpers.
We will tell them that it was as real as anything could be.
And we will tell them that the recovery was, too.
