QUARANTINES AND SANITY

Upon the quiet streets

Of what is essential

The small flame

Of joy comes

In the quick flash

Of those

Who know what

Is essential

Is human friendship.

Life in the void

Of human relations

In the interaction

Of one to another

Is not life

Is not being saved

To live

But only being prolonged

For life itself

It is the camaraderie

That is found in

The share of one

To another

That makes life

Worth living.