This Passion
This Anger
This Fury
Burns Deep
And Hot
And Long
This Passion
This Anger
This Fury
Drains my body
My mind
My soul
This Passion
This Anger
This Fury
Destroys Confidence
Friendship,
And me
This Passion
This Anger
This Fury
Burns Deep
And Hot
And Long
This Passion
This Anger
This Fury
Drains my body
My mind
My soul
This Passion
This Anger
This Fury
Destroys Confidence
Friendship,
And me
April is National Poetry Month and since I don’t have much else to do I am going to try to write a poem a day. I don’t know if inspiration will strike every day, but we will see. Anyway here is today’s first poem.
(Untitled)
Days of solitude
Nights of grandeur
Starlit skies
light the way
Nights of grandeur
Days of solitude
Winds of time
Uncover a Path
Days of solitude
Nights of grandeur
Springtime rains
Renew life
Nights of grandeur
Day of solitude
Orchestras of nature
Serenade the wanderer
Days of solitude
Nights of grandeur
Warmth of rays
Soothe the soul
Days of solitude
Nights of grandeur
Make a magical
Escape for all
Quarantine is a scary word.
So we change it to Social Distancing and no one listens.
We shut down schools to keep kids safe and they congregate in other places.
Spring breakers can’t resist the idea of a party so they endanger themselves and others high off the hubris of youth.
Some leaders pay us lip service and do nothing.
Some leaders lead and suffer heavy criticism.
Truck Drivers drive to bring us what we need and still can’t get a meal at a drive thru because in the dining room is closed and an 18 wheeler won’t fit through a drive through.
Medical staff still do their job knowing it means they may not be able to interact with their only families while people complain about “too much” family time.
Teachers struggle to learn a new way to teach, while parents finally get a glimpse into their life.
Employers full of self importance consider themselves “essential” while firing people who can’t come in.
Grocery store clerks become heroes, risking their health for your weekly grocery list
Pharmacists are forgotten heroes, filling more prescriptions than they thought they ever would.
The vulnerable sit and wonder why it seems ok that they are the “only” ones in danger and everyone seems ok with that
We all scour the internet for news, but then half of us ignore what doesn’t agree with our own opinions.
Quarantine is a scary word.