2020
By Freya Anastasia Hatfield
2020 a year full of change
2020 if you aren’t 420 friendly and getting high
you apparently can’t be having a good time
2020 the year of only being able to meet people on dating apps
2020 the year when saying we’ll meet up, and it never happening
and having a reason for it not happening
2020 a year when not caring what you look like doesn’t matter,
no one will see you anyway
2020 virtual meetings, virtual family and friend get-togethers
2020 filling your lungs with liquid
2020 cleaning the air around us
2020 killing us slowly
2020 protecting animals and the environment
2020 fixing what humans broke
2020 a year where the earth has to protect its self first
2020 black lives matter
2020 only halfway through the year and it already feels like its the end
2020 innocent policemen and women being killed
2020 innocent children being gassed
2020 another year and we still haven’t learnt from history
2020 animals being seen in places they haven’t before
2020 everything has been cancelled
2020 the year we learnt which countries could help save each other
and which only thought about themselves
2020 another year of ignorance is bliss unless it’s happening to you
2020 another year of it’ll be right until it isn’t
2020 awake up call that is still being ignored
2020 a year where plans get rearranged with no new date set
2020 a year with no end in sight
2020 a year that feels like some kind of nightmare
or horror film we’ve all laughed at that we believed wouldn’t happen
2020 countries borders closed, no travelling unless it’s essential
2020 only cards can be used no physical money allowed
2020 anything that isn’t politically correct is deleted
2020 you have to watch what you say
2020 every generation getting blamed
2020 every generation saying they are the ones who have had it worst
2020 learning history that people want to rewrite
2020 the past can’t be changed
2020 statues being brought down because they don’t fit the present
2020 statues that stood for the past a reminder of what not to be
2020 let’s learn to be kinder, let’s learn from our history and the statues of what not to be
2020 and we are still acting like its, 19, 18, 17, 1620
When will we learn that everything we do needs to change?
It won’t be before the end of 2020.
