05-11-2020, 01:39 AM
Shielding
A viral assassin has us in a global snare.
12 weeks or more, shielding,
Distance, our blade against the exponential.
I’m kept safe by returning to the fold.
Under the hens wing, I wait,
Safe, familiar, my home but not home.
I regress to my teenage room, repurposed,
A student’s desk ready for the day job.
Zoom, meetings fill the hours.
Knitting fills the minutes.
I repetitively stitch, squares of time,
Together, into a quilt of safe internment.
We bridge the social distance.
On screen, our relationship continues
Quietly, we ensure our loves resilience.
We synchronise, our hearts and films.
The physical immaterial, for now.
We distance, but don’t diminish what is.
A viral assassin has us in a global snare.
12 weeks or more, shielding,
Distance, our blade against the exponential.
I’m kept safe by returning to the fold.
Under the hens wing, I wait,
Safe, familiar, my home but not home.
I regress to my teenage room, repurposed,
A student’s desk ready for the day job.
Zoom, meetings fill the hours.
Knitting fills the minutes.
I repetitively stitch, squares of time,
Together, into a quilt of safe internment.
We bridge the social distance.
On screen, our relationship continues
Quietly, we ensure our loves resilience.
We synchronise, our hearts and films.
The physical immaterial, for now.
We distance, but don’t diminish what is.