Such a Time

Was there ever such a time as this?

With a virus creeping under the door

And maybe splashed on the skin of a beloved?

We who touch all the time

Are afraid to touch the simplest flower.

What shall we make of this…

An end or a beginning?

I choose to see the beginning

Of a new way of being,

As people who think deeply,

Love immensely,

And live with the long haul greatly enhanced.

Care and carefulness attend our actions,

And thoughts for the neighbor we don’t know

Make their way to the forefronts of mind.

We can do it all…

Make time for the tiny,

Make time for the massive,

And begin to display the cosmic light

That has always flickered within us.

Is it time to combine

The little and the large in us,

To inhabit a world that needs our newness?

Yes, perhaps now is the time…