August Lockdown, by Andrew Brion

It is strange-quiet. There is not much debate Heard beneath these grey wintered clouds of fate The people hibernate in this Southern State Ten kilometre diameter. Our caged Perimeter. You’ve heard about grief stages? The shock our Dan is not a perfect man; Denial that we need to walk this extra mile; And bargaining’s a kind of coarsening Of minds before our guilt sets in. We find We’re angry for the freedoms that we’ve lost. Sadly, we pay. Depression is the cost. But this is how we cope: we hug our hope. The leaves that fall from trees will grow anew. Dusk heralds the faint sunrise like the husk Shed from the seed before it shoots. And mighty Tides soon turn beneath the strange-quiet moon. Stars flow in love. Hope glows amongst our clouds.

- Andrew Brion

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