Going About Our Business

I wrote this one day before the first case of Covid-19 was revealed to be in our rural county.

We look out the window
From a perch on the porch
And watch families with dogs
And grandkids and such
As they head down the path
Toward the lake and their day
Trying hard not to crumble
Trying hard not to say

How scared the news makes us
Of a virus not here yet
When the best we can do
Is do nothing but sit