I am grateful to Anita Kostecki coming forward with this week's piece. Anita is a graduate of the UMass Family Medicine Residency Program and now works at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She wrote this poem while participating in a Narrative Medicine faculty development course at BMC. It is raw - the way it should be. Shining a light into the darkness of how colleagues faced Covid, alone, and in very different ways depending on their race, age, job position, etc. We can temporarily avoid but we can't dismiss. We need tears, embracement, and reflection to get us through. Thanks Anita.