Kelly J Massey
If I were a Snail
If I were a Snail,
I’d consider sleeping through 2020
The election, the pandemic,
the general hysteria I would avoid.
Snails can sleep for three years
on account of not liking the weather.
Imagine, a three-year nap
just because it rained on a day you didn’t like it.
Yet in those three years
the weather would most certainly change.
And they would have chosen to miss out on
many things not related to the weather.
If I were a Snail,
I wouldn’t sleep through 2020.
I wouldn’t have seen the resiliency, the strength
of my fellow human beings.
