So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Poem: September 1, 2021

Bait and Switch


The kids have been amped up

for about a week now. 

They think we will have to go

virtual because, you know, 

the rumors, and the mitigation

strategies, and the positivity rates.


I guess we thought this year

was going to be different,

was going to be normal.

We all wonder. We all worry.

We’re all human, and uncertainty

stirs us like a blender, and we

just want this to end one way

or another because, let’s be

honest, we’ve all been violated.


And we’ve all been robbed

of a thousand tiny and critical

moments that people used to have. 

We ache for facial expressions 

and for physical proximity. 

We need to feel trust again, but 

trust is in such short supply. 

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