Day 57… The Road Map Out.
We have been in Lockdown for a full eight weeks now and there is still so much uncertainty surrounding the virus and how to deal with it. As the Lockdown restrictions are eased both in Guernsey and the UK I have made a few observations…the first of my, now weekly, poems…
The Road Map Out.
The rainbows in the windows are fading
As is the joy in our hearts;
We’ve put up with eight weeks in Lockdown
And we can’t wait ’til Covid departs.
Places are starting to open their doors,
More people’s feet pounding the streets;
Two meter distancing markers abound
While our lives ride the tedium beat.
Flights and sailings are cancelled for months
Summer hols for the Brits just a dream;
The first ‘freedom’ weekend when travel’s allowed
‘Keep Away,’ all the beauty spots scream.
We’ve heard endless hopeless excuses
And the blame game has really got hot;
Why have so many died in our care homes?
Are they places we really forgot?
We’ve seen schools and unions in dispute,
Endless quarrels over safety for kids.
The widening trench between haves and have nots,
Yet a return for all, the councils forbid.
The US versus China battles rage on
Hostility rising with each daily row.
Trump’s stopped swilling down disinfectant
It’s anti-malaria drugs he’s on now!
Eurovision was canned for the first time ever,
But with Brexit we had no hope of a win.
‘Normal People’ has kept my pulse racing,
It beats watching the News with a gin!
As the R number looks set to rise again
Is there an answer to all of this mess?
Can the guys in the know train up covid-dogs
To sniff out the corona virus?
Mass job loss and a huge death toll
Leave the UK in a hell of a fix,
It’s tough not being able to make future plans
It’s a long haul out I predict.
FOMO was ‘The Thing’ before Lockdown
The Fear of missing out a terrible thing.
Now we’re scared to open our doors and go out
FOGO’s the ‘feel’ of this spring!
Guernsey remains in its own bubble,
Watching the rest of the world open up.
Missing opportunities and losing business?
Can we ride the storm, our own little club?
‘Notice the Beautiful Things’ said Grayson,
In his inspiring Art Club on TV.
A great philosophy as the Road Map out
Is full of hazards, its navigation tricky.
Karen Robinson. 20th May ’20.