I remember the year that changed everything

Forever engraved in history

The fear endemic

Deserted roads and highways

Endless police roadblocks

Masked men and women

Eyes filled with unspoken questions

Is it the second coming of Christ?

Prisoners in our own homes

Work from home became the hashtag

Tiktok became the distraction

The world had a shared experience

Corona Virus!

Torn between two ties

I want to cut loose

The forces are beyond me

My strength fading

I hear a voice behind me

“what will be, will be”

Another urging

“Don’t fight it”

Yet another appealing

“He deserves your every fight”

So I close my eyes

I see his face

My strength renewed

I hear a voice in my head

” No need to fight”

“Make a decision”

I did

Where do I go from here?

I am lost in a desert

Without a compass to find my way

Wandering, lonely and helpless

I am Far from family, friends and loved ones

Will I ever find my way home?

I have nowhere to go

No signal of hope or survival

I am lost with no hope of returning.

With you am never sure

Like a game of charades

I am constantly guessing

Up today

Tomorrow you are under

Sweet and sour

All at once

A rollercoaster of emotions

This love so unstable

Is driving me crazy

Like season you come and go

Like mist you appear and disappear

Like fiction you exist only in my imagination

Like a dream soon to be awaken from

Like a spectator my heart yearn for more

Soon to realise, that like a flame you are here now

The next seconds gone and nowhere to be found