Survival Is Surrender

How to Survive Covid 19?
Scroll through endless articles and tips
and stop to gawk at celebrities tweeting from their
yachts to assure you that we are all in the same boat
as you eat dry bread and they eat grass-fed
organic beef from Argentina.
We are all equal but some are more equal than others.

Looking in the mirror is a forgotten habit.
The looking glass of our hearts,
where the dead things lie
waiting to be seen.
Here, in the lockdown, you see them again.
You see You.

Tomorrow will come again.
Will you then bury them again
and hide behind your normal,
childhood dreams dead again?

How to Survive Covid 19?
Unearth the old
no more running
from the you
you used to be
looking inside
rediscovering
redefining your now
rewriting your future
regurgitating the past.

grow.
water
your roots
in quarantine.

Don’t try to wriggle
your way out.
Simply surrender.