A Yorkshire Poet Poet Free verse

Isolation - Covid 19

There is an eerie silence in this house tonight. Outside in the darkness a disease of new making has grounded this flight.

We sit and observe the people around us, the people we see. A family of strangers? Perhaps? A family of you and you and you and me.

Electronic devices where we hold our souls. Our thoughts and our secrets contained within lines of intangible code.

Communication is sudden, short lived and precise. Facebook doesn’t talk back, Twitters song sings through the eyes.

But. Weeks now await us. Confined here we are. They call it self-isolation! In this time of frustration, do we sink or do we swim? Do we float further into electro’ self-isolation or do we see each other again? 

Do we tolerate our presence in this containment? Do we smile politely? When we look at each other do we frown or take comfort in what we see?

Or, do we spare our devices, do we see past the smiles? Do we notice something we’ve forgotten or have we lost sight of what to see? - the family of friendship, of love and of music, of words spoken freely? The family we know we can be?

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