Why Are We Waiting?

 Why are we waiting?

 We are waiting for those who have the disease to fight their fights all the way to the end.

We are waiting for the virus no longer to find anybody else, any body else.

 We are waiting for our brightest to make a vaccine, to discover a cure.

 We are waiting for our leaders to fully admit the situation and rise to it.

We are waiting for our neighbors finally to stay home and join us in the wait.

 We are waiting for our financial future to somehow re-focus itself.

We are waiting to see what becomes of our relationships because of this wait.

We are waiting for our own spirits to breathe deeply, in and out, and at last embrace what is.

We are waiting to meet ourselves again someday. Our changed selves.

We are waiting.