Joy seems so challenged
during these cramped Covid times
as we live online
praying as the sirens pass
for neighbors dying en masse

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No words; thoughts, silence,
work, stress, fears, growth, connection.
family and friends
(Torah, Tefilah, podcasts,
juggling phone calls, TV)

What judgments can do:
split a person into two
and it could be you.
And then the truth slips right through
pushed aside and out of view

You're an extrovert
so I get why you asked me
if I mind at all
the quarantine/pandemic.
Being that I'm an empath.

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Not that I'm not scared
but being an introvert
my space is not jail
but it's a sanctuary
even during quarantine

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I was feeling like
I needed a change in life.
Now everything's changed,
as though from out of the blue,
not just for me, but for you.

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Still I like to sit
at this screen after bedtime,
this is one constant
amidst all of the changes
here I am again, hello

I know it’s poison
But I get angry inside
Need to pound some clay.
With thanks to Mister Rogers
And to those who challenge me.

118

Apparently it
Takes two weeks to make the mold
of a person’s ear
So said the doctor to a
patient, in the waiting room.

Mauve is the color
Taste and texture halava
It's a straining time
Purple and pink diluted
Peculiar flavor and feel