500,000 Deaths

Each time I think of this number

It makes me even numb-er.

The amount is beyond just vast

And grows each day ever so fast!

More deaths, it blows the human mind,

Than WW I, II & ’Nam combined

But like these vets, were linked to others:

Family, friends, co-workers, lovers.

They fell to an invisible foe

And now how many more will go?

Does one really need to ask

Wash hands, be distant, wear a mask?

And now we have a final task

Across the world and our nation

One must get the vaccination.

Read more by Ada Mark Strausberg.