Is a lot like retirement

If you don’t catch the virus…

Staying home, not working

Watching TV like your life

Depends on the daily reports,

Updates on weather

Letting you know what you should wear

As you stay at home…

Two years of retirement

Out of ten have been spent

Quarantining at home…

The dream of traveling

In retirement has evaporated

As cruise ships have docked…

States keep breaking out

With virus and hospitals overwhelmed

Makes a retired groom and his

Retired bride think twice about

Venturing out and tempting fate…

Since birth we’ve made it through

Encephalitis, whooping cough, polio

Several bouts of measles, chicken pox

Strep throat, child birth, HBP , several

Concussions, falls,

Smoking, driving, no car seats or

Seatbelts, and many years of marriage…

Tempting an unseen virus floating

In the air and spreading with

Greater targeting and killing

Than a bomb… makes one believe

Home alone together is best…

Anything less could end this aging

Marriage with an inhale of infected air…

We value life, love and family too much

To put ours and yours in harms way…

Stay home, stay safe, wear a mask,

Get vaccinated, boosted and enjoy space

And life as this pandemic tries to end

Civilization as we’ve know it!