lockdown

every day

there’s so much we want

and not get.

things that were never

scarce or costly.

a walk in the park with a friend;

a drink in a bar, enjoying the buzz around

...

examples.

it’s already becoming harder

to come up with examples

as every day,

same as the day before,

makes us smaller.

and in that pathetic, recursive state

of lacking excitement

we scream against the four walls of our room:

“I want out”

“I want people”
“I want you”

“I want life; now that I can still recall it”

and every night we pray

that tomorrow we’ll still care enough

to keep on screaming.

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lockdown by Dimitrios Kokkinos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License