WHAT IF ISOLATION WAS INCUBATION

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Isolation

Nothing familiar is quite the same

A holy curiosity demands

the understanding of privileged mystery 

A uniquely universal enemy

Forcefully showed its hand

Yet, as we rode the crest of the invisible

You crowned the year

With your bounty

Slowly we learnt of a

determined decision to

Conceal and not reveal

Answers never came

Lament filled our eyes 

But, even hard pathways

Eventually give way to promise

Your voice sings

Can you not see it?

Don’t say now is the time of darkness

When you are my conduit of light

Rather, announce the horizons

As a season of change

Here and now

As you sit at the cusp of the new

Watch as the cocoon breaks

and Isolation gives birth to

Incubation

© Ouida Pihulyk 2020