Wear a mask
Social distance when in public
Be careful
Stay six feet away
Stay inside
Don’t see friends
Do not visit restaurants
or stores
unless necessary
Go crazy
from the isolation
and not getting any breaks from the children!
Fear the plague
and maybe don’t be a jerk to your neighbours?
Unthinking
Gullibly
Foolishly
But never maliciously
or cruelly
would I do anything
to harm you
or put you in harms way.
I’d rather be a changeling child
Then one without a soul.
For if I can not walk the wilds
As I watch for the rabbits hole
I would find myself a caged bird
Whose wings are bound by bonds
That strain endlessly to be heard
As I look for that magic wand.
The way to be free from here
To nature shall I return.
The deep chill of this fear
Keeps me from the learned
Who only prattle on about their books
The science of their pondering’s
When the wind spills more answers
Than the water has waves wandering.
The forest is my home.
I know.
The softness of its loam
Is where I sow
The breath of life
Within me
And my own
For there are others
Who can never be a city born
Or they will live their lives forlorn.
Drug deals going down outside.
People horking onto the playgrounds.
Watching the cats fight
and people walk to go get their morning coffee.
I wonder about society sometimes
but today is not that day.
Weather is the first conversation
whenever you meet up with colleagues.
Yet this spring
more serious matters are pressing.
No contact rules.
Avoid public spaces.
Wash everything when you come home.
How can we stay connected
when we can not even say hello?
Owner of a lonely heart
Barely heard
Turns into deep deep hole
Then changed further
As the refrain stays in the brain
Upon waking it is still there
A week later still heard
And so new refrains are created
But the deep dark hole remains
Friends visiting friends.
Laughing, playing games.
Having a good time.
Joining in the fun.
Laughing about the days
when we couldn’t visit each other.
That is the dream to look forward to in these days of isolation!
My biggest problem is
I over use the same word choice
to describe multiple dilemmas
Such as
The point is
that I am a creature of habit
and when confronted
or merely excited
I observe that this is
My biggest problem
Things start to break
needing to be replaced
or repaired.
Things go wrong
and solutions need to be found.
Times get tougher
because problems get compounded.
The universe is not sentient
but sometimes
like now
it feels like it is pranking us
and I for one
do not like it!
Healthy enough to run away
Yet I won’t because….
I do not like being disappointed
though that seems my current state.
Things go wrong
and even when anticipated
things still get worse
and so this horrible limbo
of what is happening and how am I going to fix it?
Or can I?
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