A word; a scientific name for something very few of us had ever heard about; a threat of life; a burden that brings restrictions and hesitations in so many ways; a warning of what our future can look like, if we do not understand it and accept how to overcome it.
Covid.
How can such a small word of only a few letters come to mean so much to so many; in so many ways; on so many levels; with so many outcomes; and impacting so many people, families, communities, and societies; and the earth? The power it carries over all of us will remain for a long, long time. Maybe forever.
Covid.
It’s such a small thing in nature and so easy to speak. But it has changed so much. Nothing will ever be the same again. We will meet together and speak together, we will kiss and love together. But it will always be there with us; in between us; traveling everywhere we go; occasionally in the open; sometimes hidden in time and in the shadows; but never gone. This small thing.
Covid.
It is amazing really. It carries so many contradictions. It is so difficult to see, but its effects are so clear. It has torn us apart but brought all of us together when it disappears, for a time. It has stopped us from talking, but we have seldomly said so much about anything. It is so inhumane, but it has increased our humanity in so many ways. It is so unfair we say, but it is also completely fair and does not distinguish in any fashion.
Covid.
It has spoken to us as it has brought us to our knees. It has shown how vulnerable we all are. We, humans; changes of Earth; the spacefaring species brought back home. It has shown us we have not paid attention; demonstrated we have gone too far; told us that we should not take our comfortable lives for given. We are being disciplined as a species. By a virus.
Covid.
