Easter Sunday 2020

Quarantine

Quiet time

Petty quarrels between a teen and tween.

Panic, then plenty

Thanks to Instacart,

Amazon Prime Curb side pickup, farmfresh2you.com

A pantry of Pad Thai noodles, muffin mix, almond milk.

New books, old music fill the days,

Jigsaw puzzle and candle making await.

But what about the others?

What about the homeless, the helpless, the hardly getting by, the hopeless?

What about the jobless, the joyless, the disconnected, the disenfranchised?

When suffering comes, it is the others who always suffer the most.

Lynn Kessler