Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Children Deserve a Turn

The pandemic has changed how we think.
We cannot touch hands without consequences.
We cannot do hand up, pair up, share up at school.
We cannot play duck duck goose or ring around the rosie
Or London Bridge or any of the normal games.
We cannot play chess or Chinese checkers or Chutes and Ladders
We would be so busy sanitizing the pieces, we would not get a turn.
I am tired of our kids “not getting a turn”. 
Why can’t people do what they need to do
So we can safely return to normal?

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L Milton Hankins August 25, 2021 at 1:38 PM Oh, you can never know how much I agree with you. I read today where "the ICUs are full of people with the Delta, most of them unvaccinated." The article went on to say that we are not doing what we must do to defeat this virus, and that most of the hospitalized could have been prevented with the vaccine. Get the damned shot, people!!! Caren Krutsinger August 26, 2021 at 6:15 AM I am so sad that the world does not realize how important this vaccine is.

Ann Foster August 25, 2021 at 12:49 PM Children are the hope of our world... Well written friend. Loads of emotion. Ann Caren Krutsinger August 26, 2021 at 6:15 AM Thank you Ann. I am all about the children.