Monday, March 23, 2020

The World Is Still There


The day is still there.

Underneath and outside all the chaos that fills us up and drowns us, there is still the song of waking birds, the sunlight touching on the clouds like a gentle tap on the shoulder. You are still free to walk either amidst the silencing morning fog or under a painfully blue sky that shows between the budding trees. You are still free to leave your card table desk and sit out back on a balmy afternoon where nothing will touch you.

The forsythia and dandelions still appear, bringing a springtime that, even in all this, insists on keeping a schedule. There will be flowers to plant that will not know the chaos into which they will bloom.

The world is still there. Even in the ugliness and panic and stupidity and death, its beauty endures.

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