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The Life on Pause
by Barbara W Armstrong → (All Poetry by Barbara W Armstrong)
Saturday, February 20, 2021    Rated "PG" by the Author.
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Life in 2020 was surreal. Everything we'd hoped and expected - didn't, couldn't happen.


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Waiting for it to be over
Waiting for the day they say the words
Longing for that first fresh breath of freedom
Knowing it will   ‘be a while’

 The life on pause

 looking forward to
            
the time when...

reaching out
             to touch... emptiness

The arms encircled
             embracing - air

growing spaces
             dark and lonely
                      deep within our souls

 The life postponed

Celebrate my milestone – without me
I can’t be there for you – child
I just want you with me – parent
Disconnect to reconnect – on line

The life … surcease 

At the turn of the decade no one expected our world to be turning not only around, but turned on its side and upside down. Looking back in twenty-twenty hindsight, we should have known it would happen this way.

 

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "The Life on Pause"
Reviewed by Diana Wiles
Reviewed on May 15, 2021
We have got this far, and look back to those early, so scary days...
Here in the UK on Monday we can have two households together
inside our homes...and hugs are allowed..!
We don’t know how precious things are until they are withdrawn from us...
It was a time of reflection for many of us, and the world will never be exactly
the same again...
Thanks for your insights...

Best wishes,
Diana...

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 20, 2021
No one can predict a virus. They become occasionally into our lives and we have to deal with them one way or another. Thankfully, in the modern era we have actually began to come up with cures, vaccinations that would actually eliminate the possibility of the virus surviving.

Yes, life will pause, but in the future, perhaps less than a year like this one has caused. Much better than letting it run pandemic throughout the world and kill at will until everyone left is immune from having had it.

Ron


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