dusk arising

2020 May day blues

 

 

Disappointment awakens
chill shudders demand heat as
dreary dawn haunts windows
and lockdown blues hang heavy in the air.
Today, just another yesterday
as was yesterday itself
blurred into non-descript coping
as boredom radio broadcasts
unrelenting bad news forecasts.

                          Consciousness
                          desires coffee.
                          Aching limbs
                          find the kitchen
                          and day has begun.
                          May-day, m\'aider.
                          Gamble the risk
                          of a groceries run?
                          But to mask or
                          not to mask
                          dumbest of
                          questions.

World news radio
vends banks of
self preservation
where economics
become a murky pool
to cross when
tomorrow brings
yet another land
\'fit for heroes\' as we,
should we survive,
are encouraged
to believe we
have already become.