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Another new poem today, prompted by mind-body-spirit yesterday.
If any good can be said to come out of this awful COVID-19 it is that more of us have a sense of our all being in he same proverbial boat, regardless of any socio-cultural religious or, yes, sexual persuasion. Hopefully once the pandemic has passed, bigotry will have taken a bad fall if not disappeared altogether. Well, hope springs eternal ...
Across the world, people are struggling to cope various social restrictions, often at the same time as mourning loved ones who have passed away before their time. All due credit to humanity for its remarkable stoicism in the face of tough times.
A neighbour recently lost her mother. When I sympathised, she commented that "She is better off out of all this. I miss her terribly, of course, but her spirit will never leave me so I guess I just have to live with and be thankful for that." True, indeed. As I often try to reassure readers in my poems and blog preambles, love never dies.
Meanwhile, each in his and her own way, we can but continues to do battle with COVID-19 and trust that, when all's said and done, humanity is bigger than it, and will not only endure but survive whatever it throws at us.
A COMMON HUMANITY, THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY
Yesterday,
already past tense,
having
left its mark on us some way
or
another, more elements
of
memory likely to find us engaging
with
such varying shades
of
light and dark, colour, absences
of
colour, and encounters
with
such black and white images as preferably
glossed
over by way of face-savings
Today,
a sense of making the best
of
times, enduring the worst, ever urging
mind-body-spirit
to reflect
on
kinder, happier climes, lend illusion
all
the colours of a rainbow
making
promises it may (or may not) keep,
self-appointed
Guardian of Hope
in
sickness and in health, half-awake and asleep,
feeding
mind-body-spirit raison d'être
Tomorrow, left foraging for crumbs
of comfort or even enjoying a hearty meal
where the cap (or metaphor) fits,
feeding human arts, nature, and archives
conclusions that may (or may not)
be grounded in fact, fiction or a predilection
on the part of human nature
to enter into such mind games as engineered by
Time,
and passed off as history or philosophy
Call
me Past-Present-Future, providing the diversity
that
puts the ‘u’ and ‘y’ in a common humanity
Copyright
R N Taber, 2020
[Note: this poem also appears on my gay-interest poetry blog today as feedback suggests a significant number of its reader "see no reason" to access this one.