it was while the world was upside down that you learned to ride a bike I watched pride bloom on your face confidence has always been your strong suit, my dear you bathed and danced and negotiated for dessert rejoicing in the absence of school the abdication of basically all the rules like it wasn’t a thing as if everything was fine and not unraveling rapidly this morning I noticed the birds again the grass has started turning leaves on the trees are burgeoning all harbingers of spring carrying on with their normal routine a small sign that even what goes dormant is still alive underneath they can’t cancel everything and I wonder what you will remember of this strange time our lives simplified radically I watch you play outside, carefree oblivious to the wildfire that’s caught hold just outside your line of sight go on, my dear joy is contagious as well as fear
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I love your last line.