What if the epidemic ends and nothing changed?
Is our goal just to hunker down and live through it?
Or can we use it as fuel to make a change
That benefits all of us?
It has been difficult to shelter alone, just as its been difficult for all of us to shelter, or not.
I like to believe something good could come out of it.
That the disaster could hold a new way of being.
Do we have to set an intention for that to happen?
Or will it just naturally occur as a byproduct?
I spent too long denying there was a problem, then trying to bargain my way out of it.
All the signs of grief, as I yearned for a return to "normal."
And now as we start to find a path to reopen,
I find resistance to the change yet again...
My cocoon is still sheltering the not yet transformed butterfly.