The optimism of fatherhood

It's Father's Day, his first,
holding his daughter who is gaining weight
on schedule, working to turn over by herself,
and talking!,  talking to him and his wife
they're a family
what optimism to be a father in this world
while angry citizens march in the street,
the elderly fall by the wayside, toppled by Coronavirus,
a President who destroys everything that
catches his gaze
what optimism to hold a small baby, wishing
her 70. 80. 90 years of good health and happiness
in this world, this world that we are destroying
an optimism that we will save it and that
she will have her own daughter one day
in a different world.