Poems (On Various Themes)

To My Future Children

A poem about Covid and what we will look back on, that I wrote in one of the first lockdowns. I imagined if I ever did have children, what I would tell them of that period.

I'll show them pictures of people wearing masks.

I'll show them all the two meter stayers and the supermarket runs.

I'll show them Somers Town.

I'll tell them of the tree cutters and cats hiding under cars.

I might even, with a teary face, tell them how the NHS's funding was deprived.

I'll tell them how PPE was scarce, but we got through it all, with online learning, zoom meetings and chats.

I'll tell them of the rows

and the moments we came together.

I'll tell them of the people we now remember to thank;

The key workers and front line helpers.

I'll tell them of lock down history and Somers Town's past.

I hope I'll be able to show them the lunettes and plaques. The finials and pubs.

I hope I will still walk these streets and see courtyards and accessible housing .

I'll tell them of the lock down runs, birthdays, the things I learnt and the amount of movies I watched.

They might ask me what was normal life before this or how it was in lock down state.

They'll ask me things I do not know.

I'll say it was an uncertain time