Day 4 Prompt: Active
Form: Free Verse
"Easter 2021"
Easter morning
All the eggs have been found
Worship filled our souls
I’m out walking, trying to remove the age from my legs
It has been
A year since the world locked down
I notice some homes have
Out-of-state plates
While others have nothing but dark windows
How many stories have ended in the last
356 days
How many lives
began in those same thousands of hours
I feel the contradiction of this world
As the sun warms my face
With the promise of a new beginning
Yet, the breeze cools my neck with the memory of winter
Our stories are solid beneath our feet
But flow together like cirrus clouds in the sky above me
My name
unknown to almost everyone
My title of father, though, has cemented generations to come
I don’t know
If my neighbors see me reach my front step
As I open the front door
My family knows I’m home
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