Sunday, May 10, 2020

Normalizing the Abnormal

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR:  CORONAVIRUS SERIES



Normalizing the Abnormal

Total transformation
In the flicker of flight
A dance in the darkness
With the shadows of doom
Flames jumping in glimmering light
Horrors receding on a fiendish night

A new way of living our daily lives
No bars no pubs no congregations
We exist now in isolation
A nation of loners is not a nation
We live in perpetual segregation

We walk our chosen paths alone
Observe from a distance
Converse on the phone
Interact on social media
Forever at home

We cease to be what we’ve always been
This new normal is foreign and strange
Without impulse or freedom of being
Like a marriage that’s been arranged

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