Social Distancing as a Poem

It's been a few days but I wanted to share my newest poem with the world. Many of us are still trying to process social distancing. I wanted to write something to help me get some of the heaviness of this time off my mind and onto paper.
I really encourage others to do art or draw (even if you don't think you are good at it)

The Void
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The world has sent us away
tucked like corners of a bed
never to touch
to remain distant
distant distractions
lifestyle rearranged
scattered into pieces
to protect
to bind the helpless
into life itself
and allow more breath to fill lungs
to take time to contemplate
absorb
without the distraction
of each other
to understand
what life is
beyond
green paper
beyond the hurry
I'm sure to some it's like they were just escorted
off the spinning axis of life
fast New York pace
Temptation to break from four walls
to break from thoughts
But you are in a Southern Slow now...
southern lull
sipping tea
sipping lemonade
and watching the grey skies roll
and rain make the understanding
it too drums with your heart
that you insist on ignoring
For night life,
for parties
for clubs
We are given this curse
this gift
by mother nature
as if she didn't have a voice
pitiful humans
you are blaming animals
blaming God
Looking but you were quiet
smoke and factory
Industrial Age
Melting and burning her
Extinct
Extinct
Extinct
like they only matter
when they become a collectible stamp
blame millennials
blame boomers
but don't forget
your own hands
your own voices
silent .....
thinking....
a product of social distancing .....

-By Nova Leigh Walker
       3/26/20