When we say that every crisis is also an opportunity
Do you think we don’t know
That we are building our better future
On the bodies of those who won’t make it to the other end
What comfort it would be if we knew
That every one of the dead had cried
“Don’t mourn, organise” with their dying breath
But we know that most will be crying only
For their loved ones who they will never see again
Who will not hold their hand as they slip away
To be buried in a mass grave.
Do you think we don’t know
That some of us have hugged our parents for the last time too
We would not have chosen to pay this price.
And even if we grow a better future out of this
It will not bring back the dead who will have still died for nothing
When we say that every crisis is also an opportunity
Understand that politics is not a game to us. We are not gamblers.
We are trying to build a new world out of the ashes
We never wanted the old world to burn in the first place
Grace Krause, Cardiff 12.04.2020
@theGraceK
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