Virus Game

We often try to think ahead, trying to guess the outcome of whatever events we are experiencing. In doing so at the beginning of the pandemic, I began to think about not only what might be, but what I wanted to be. If thoughts become things, I want to think the best ones.

Virus Game

There are many ways this all could go

I’ll try to keep my mind on the best

To focus my thoughts on the brightest
   path for mankind’s future

But there are many ways this all could go

Even if the best plays out

And we turn the corner on unwise
   ways to find the truer path

All of the many ways this all could go

Will lead us into darkness

But only a few will let us move
   through hope and into light

All of the many ways this all could go

Swim through my thoughts

It is mine to pick the one
   that serves as anchor

Of all the many ways this all could go

I pick the one that leads to truth

That faces into the light
   and does not blink

And the darkness of the path will yield

To the sun of a gentler dawning

And the discontented world
   may yet be saved