My Last Day At School

Take everything you ever want to see again From your office tomorrow My principal said the day before spring break But a parent and a sobbing child were in there So I grabbed my phone and tiptoed away Thinking I would have time tomorrow to collect things The next day we were told to not report to work For a week, then two, then ten days. I have a multitude of feelings. Most of them culminating in a field of loss Loss of life as I knew it two weeks ago Before I had ever heard the word pandemic