Eating Cheese and Crackers- 10 June 2022

Eating Cheese and Crackers

10 June 2022

Eating cheese and crackers

Looking out of my garden

Fences all around

We are conditioned

To lockdowns

To restrictions

To unpredictable situations

We no longer frown

We no longer shout

As the world shuts down

As major changes happen all around

Yet, people no longer protest or stand up

As the price of petrol goes up and up

The cost of living goes up

Rumours on the newspaper mill

As we move along this continuous treadmill

What will be the next word spillage?

What will be the next world wide event to fill this empty space?

As our old world is slowly being erased

A new world we do not recognise

Is slowly growing in its place

As I drink my tea

As my own garden slowly shrinks around me

The fences grow slowly taller into solid bricks

I can no longer see the world as it used be

I just reminisce

As I eat my cheese and crackers

Toria

10/6/2022