The door is open,
But who opened it?
We made it out alive,
But who didn't?

Shake yourself awake.
There is still work to be done,
Words to be written,
Lives to be saved.
The lives of many still hanging in the balance.
We cannot give up now.

This isn't over yet.
It won't be,
Not for a long,
Long time. 
But we can breathe again,
Hope again,
Dream again.
We can start to live again.

The bodies of the fallen,
Carried off the battlefield.
The sick, cured.
The lost, found.
The helpless, helped.

The battle isn't over.
There is work to be done,
Lives to remember,
Heroes to honor.
But we can start over again,
Make a new normal,
Find a new medium,
Live a new life.

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Happy 2021! (It's january first right now) hopefully 2021 isn't as bad as its predecessor! :)