COVID Vaccination Card

My COVID vaccination card is yellowing with age.

It’s frayed around the edges now we’re past that early stage.

It used to be essential, flashing it upon demand.

But, the crisis has diminished.  It’s no longer close at hand.

It’s hard now to remember all the panic and the fear,

but the future was uncertain in that awful COVID year.

We’ve learned to live with COVID.  We go on about our tasks.

We see faces all around us that are bare of COVID masks.

Perhaps we ought to thank those folk—the scientists and such—

who found a path through COVID that has changed our lives so much.

And perhaps we ought to give our thanks that we are still alive,

for we’re among the lucky ones who managed to survive.