Untitled response to 2020 April PAD Prompt: the last blank
by Marie Elena
Pixabay image credit: https://pixabay.com/users/alexandra_koch-621802/
We wouldn’t suspect
the last time we visited
could be our last time.
© Marie Elena Good, 2020
#covidnineteen
#seventeenintwenty
I had kind of promised myself I would not get morbid during this PAD challenge. But here I am. I’ll try to write another poem that sparks a smile or a smirk. 😉
pictured words 
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #5: Marie Elena’s latest #senryu!
Thank you so much, Frank!
😇
Marie, your words convey the thoughts I have after I visit my 88 year old mother who lives in a long term care facility. In-person family visitations were cut off weeks ago. But I can walk around to the back of the building where we press our faces close to her room’s window and speak loudly enough for us to understand each other. Then as I drive back home, with events happening so quickly for those at greatest risk, I wonder if that visit was my last.
Oh my. 😦 David, these times we are in are just so hard. But especially for our elderly in homes where we can’t really visit them. Please be safe. And … I miss you.