Corona'ing




Corona'ing


Confined amidst chaos, lessons to ponder and learn from,
A fruit fly in my midst reminds me I’m not alone,
A vivid Sun drowns the windows, drapes the walls,
In quiet spaces, Life is sprawling with new rhythms, new words,

Shifting, Expanding, Breathing this present moment,
A gift to Fathom, Experience, Embrace,
From here I watch the day unfolding,
the street outside my window moving,
News from screens I keep ignoring,

Stop the Madness! Work together!  Love-one-another once again!
My eyes swell from the ink and glare of fierce words,
Desperate to be seen, but who is really listening,
To the protests,
To the pain?

Left, right, center, nothing to trust but Truth itself,
Baby water thrown, oh my,
And yet from the disarray, there is room for light,
And breath, and new ideas to grow;
Elastic dreams edging us forward,
Into the present moment we try to hold,

I think of all the Sky we had, the ground we didn’t roam,
Of hands and faces never thanked,
Time to rethink our approach,
To meet Nature, Sun and Earth anew,
And to redraw the messy lines that we created,
Delicate like the wings of a buzzing fly.


 Maya Stott (UK) & Thierry Fulconis (Luxembourg) - May 4th, 2020

©    Maya Stott & Thierry Fulconis have asserted their moral rights as authors of this work and have full copyright.




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