Thank you to Glory Sasikala at GloMag for publishing my poem today.

FINDING OUR AWAKENING

I pray our solitude

will teach us to listen.

But, the world is so loud,

even now pressed against its own inaction.

We wait to find a hushed rendezvous

in flaming Spring,

hoping there will be no true fail.

And,

we are learning how easy it would be

to end the world.

We are tiring of the long present.

Yet, just when all looks lost,

freedom will open

and be revealed here and there.

We will become glad our bodies could find light

beyond this disease.

And, once we regain all our liberties,

we can drift above the clouds

in this moment of freedom

made by love from heroes.

To sing more,

and talk less,

bringing us all closer to God.

And if we have enjoyed those days of seclusion

in the right way,

we will share memories

20 years from now and beyond,

and do so shamelessly.