Cage Free

The emotion within me rather strange

Ensconced in my thoughts for so long

Not sure if outdoors I belong

Now COVID has gone, and I am cage free

There’s nothing to hold me back, but me

Simple pleasures of life denied

running chores, going to work, meeting a friend 

hanging out without fear or doubt

I am born again, I dare say

This quarantine has taught me how to pray

Church is filled

I look around

Joy and hope is abound

Grocery shops, malls and beaches packed

There’s an air of calm despite the rush

One lesson we learned: kindness and compassion

this invisible enemy it took to crush

But, human memory is short lived

Road rage, bullying, speeding, screaming

Lying, cheating, division, derision soon begin

Thank goodness, we are back to normal

All this love and kindness was making me sick, like an unwelcome tick

Covid, A fleeting memory of the past

Must be first, I can’t be last.

Standing for hours in line for a black Friday sale

Shoving  and jostling to get to the front

Hours of screaming sounding like grunts

And just in a snap, the unthinkable happens-Bringing all the madness to a full stop.

T’was was the very thing that brought us to our knees

The dreaded COVID sneeze