GROUNDED

Perhaps in these times we
Realise how little material things are worth
(So why wory too much about them?)
And yet not feel nihilistic exactly.

At times of disease
Perhaps we are forced
To take a different perspective
And consider that

Life is about trying to survive:
We don't know where
We are going or
How things will turn out

And perhaps in that sense
We are now like
A developing country
Reduced to surviving;

Being subject to nature
(Both in terms of disease
And the increased level
Of birdsong and greenery..

We are aware of our
Mortality as perhaps never before
All anxious about living
A day or a week more.

"We must survive"
We think or feel.

MDC