Quarantine

Headlines today:

PANDEMIC! UNHEARD! UNSEEN!

A NEW WORLD ORDER

TO BE SPENT IN QUARANTINE.

The tears, the fears, the lost careers,

A new crisis, we must shift the gears

Into a life less ordinary.

A life of less – that’s for sure.

It all seems ugly,

It lacks Grace,

And it lacks the pace of that race

That I know I can control.

I cannot comprehend this new ordinary.

Ordinarily I could embrace the odd day off,

A day to take stock,

A day to reset the clock

And knock on the doorways of my life

That I haven’t really visited recently.

Or I could just watch Netflix.

But this is not ordinary.

I must drag my feet and take my seat

In the solitary throne of my castle

Where I am visited by the ghosts and tweets

Of fears and tears and lost careers,

Of those who claim to live ‘unseen’

In this new world order

We call quarantine.

It is a new world ordinary I cannot comprehend.

Or rather…

Perhaps…

Perhaps I never could comprehend the ‘ordinary’?

It was unheard, it was unseen

Hidden by the spectre

Of tears and fears of bunk careers

And drowned out by incessant turning gears.

Did I ever see or hear an ordinary day?

Did I ever control the race,

Or was it Grace who always set the pace

Of a life I once called ordinary?

Maybe I can comprehend it all…

This…. ‘Thing’

Between the Games of Thrones and Tiger Kings…

Maybe…. Just maybe….

There’s only so much Netflix I can enjoy.

It’s hard to embrace this slow time off,

This time to reset the clock

To take a key and unlock

The doorways of my life I haven’t visited recently.

I now must get off my seat

And carry my feet

Around the inner moat of my lonely castle.

By now I have opened the online gates

And by the chance of fate

Have transformed my castle into a fortress of the all the greats….

(My friends and family; of course)

Physically far, spiritually close

Connected to all,

I raise this toast.

The struggle is real,

Endure the dream,

To the other side

Of Quarantine!