Saturday, April 11, 2020

Poem for the week: "The Celestial Music of COVID-19"


The Celestial Music of COVID-19

I sensed it unexpectedly while talking
with my love this morning, a feeling,
an insight born of this global pandemic
that’s terrifying the whole world.

“It’s in the air,” I said, grasping it with
my poet’s mind, a sound I never heard
before, a new octave higher than any
music the world has ever known.

A sound of restive peace, a quietude
of healing that no earthly orchestra
could conceive, and I said to my love,
“It’s the celestial music of COVID-19.”

And I knew that the world will one day
relish in this new octave of higher being,
born in the womb of COVID-19, as we
painfully entrain with life’s divine
purpose of harmonious living.





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