Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19

DAY 67: AILEEN CASSINETTO 

Poet Laureate, San Mateo, CA

From “Love in the Time of COVID-19,
A Community Poem for Healthcare Workers and Other Frontliners”:

For the inner strength, courage and compassion
with which you serve,
our eternal devotion, you so deserve.

For all your efforts, may you be blessed
a thousand fold. Where we are,
the tired ghosts of fearful uncertainty
welcome the laughter that champions the heart,
for the speed of love turns out to be the speed of light.

A gentle reminder: Be safe. Be well.

Be kind. Which is to say, shelter in safety and love.

Everybody’s home And nobody’s alone.

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