Say This Isn’t the End
A poem for Sunday
by Richard Blanco
Jun 07, 2020
2 minutes
... say we live on, say we’ll forget the masks that kept us from dying from the invisible, but say we won’t ever forget the invisible masks we realized we had been wearing most our lives, disguising ourselves from each other. Say we won’t veil ourselves again, that our souls will keep breathing timelessly, that we won’t return to clocking our lives with lists and our days errant as sun showers, impulsive as a star’s falling. Say this isn’t our end …
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