Sunday 12 April 2020

2020.10 The Weight of Greaves

Kindness has not been rationed,
Unless you know something I don’t.
Believe me – I feel your pain, but
Lies are promulgated
Everywhere – some ignorant, others less so.
Research is the key;
Research and hope, strange as that might sound.
Open yourself to difficult possibilities,
Surrender to the notion that everything is changing,
So much quicker than we might have anticipated,
Great swathes of how we function have shifted, and
Rage will not take you all the way to the end.
It’s difficult – we want to shut our
Eyes, but that’s no more
Functional than flailing,
Cursing, begging for a way back:
You are on a track that cannot be reversed,
Cry all you might for the lost moments.
Let yourself – it is only one step –
Elegies are how we say goodbye, and keep on living.

How Do People Actually… Change? | Literary Hub
Image from LitHub, © Steve Greer

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