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For all the discord America has endured these past months, throughout both the COVID-19 pandemic and rapidly rising social unrest, it’s important to laud the heroes who have effected our continual movement toward progress. Essex-based poet Paige Dubuque, featured this week, wishes for us to open our eyes – as her title expresses – to the sunlight still shining down on us, lighting our path forward.
Open your eyes…
By Paige Dubuque, 16, Essex
Open your eyes and see what is good,
what people have done just because they could.
In a time of chaos and sickness and fear,
there are some who remind us they are always here.
Think of the nurses who are working so hard,
they help and they heal the folks who are scarred.
There are businesses donating the supplies that they can,
compassionate people lending a hand.
The media focuses on all that is bad,
but what if they talked about what makes people glad?
The flowers are blooming, the sunshine is bright,
and I think this world will be alright.
Good deeds are everywhere, and they aren’t in disguise –
all you must do is open your eyes.
