Are You All There?

Friday Fix 50 word prompt for Aug 7th : Absence & presence

Danny Claridge
The Friday Fix
1 min readAug 7, 2020

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Are you absent or present

If you’re on Zoom?

No matter who’s talking to whom

Somehow we all assume

That we’re in the room

We’re sitting in our chair

But we’re so not there.

Lockdown has made me ponder

If it isn’t really presence

That makes the heart grow fonder

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Danny Claridge
The Friday Fix

Father of four, grandad, creative director, thinker, writer, and guitarist dreamer. Born again bloke after a quadruple heart bypass and savouring every breath.