like anyone post pandemic

I am baffled anew often

by the way we’ve changed

like a frog in a pot of cold water set to boil

we have been slowly assimilated to the change in temperature

and now

we’ve got so much work to do

it stares us in the face and demands a reconing

how did we reach this place

it is no gesthemani

but a small shadow cast daily anew

of a mustard seed bow giving up shade