Each day the quarantine goes on
mortality weighs heavier on my body
A lead jacket growing thicker and thicker
the reality of death creeping closer to my pores
But with this weight there is also
a simultaneous lightening and brightening
in the form of renewed bravery or perhaps
it is reawakened freedom
Freedom to sing the shadows of my heart
Bravery to reach out with shaking hands
Fortitude to listen openly, letting the terrors seep in
without feeling tempted to change the subject
Today I feel grateful for Coronavirus because
it nurtures a deep knowing in me:
The more tenderly I cradle my own fragility
a steadier mother I will be for all of Earth’s children
The more I welcome the inevitable decay of this body
the more I expand into the timelessness of all souls
The more I embrace the sorrow of change
the more I am proven that this virus too
like all things, shall pass
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