ELLIE#1

I am trying to remember what it is when I was your age. Was it sadness and insecurities, after I learned how I was formed? Now that I can almost touch you, but stay away like a hand on top of a stove, avoiding a burn. The fact is Covid, here or not here, seen or unseen, has created a permanent barrier, between brains, between hearts, between hands, between desires. I wait for the day you stay awake and hug me and call me Yeye.