Restaurants closed for dine-in customers Stay at home ‘til April, then May, then June? No end in sight, but
Lives will be saved by staying away
Yet I can’t shake the yearning
For sharing a meal with the warmth of comradery
The virus is a hiccup
In a timeline of vast cosmic forces
But if measured by missed cups of coffee with a friend It’s been eons
I am learning to be honest
While hiding expressions behind a mask
I am learning to embrace you
And immediately wash my hands
I am learning that it didn’t have to be a pandemic It could have been an ice age or a comet
What matters is who we keep close
While circumstance demands distance
Arturo "Tootie" Alvarez - Pilsen