
Welcome to the
Calgary Narrative Collective
In Response to the Pandemic:
I lie awake at night
To the sound of my heart beating
In the still dark night
Of a newly deserted neighborhood
It is so lonely
That I can hear the snowflakes falling
Over the closed park missing its children.
I lie awake at night
To the vision of my thoughts swirling
With the snippets of the day
Of virus, curve, and number
And the swirls glow with the soft blue of a screen
It is so anxious
That I can hear the snowflakes falling
Over the houses with their own blue screens still aglow
I lie awake at night
To the memory of words laid out
Between us in this house
Or those spoken to the cat
Or over the lines of the borders that divide us now
Words missed us today again
It is so grappling
That I would rather hear the snowflakes falling
Over all these quiet humans lying on their sides of the beds
I lie awake at night
To the distant grave lament to mourn
The dead that could not be saved:
I lie awake at night
That I should be qualified
To my will to live
And to draw near
And to re-vision
And to reach the good words
And perhaps, to love
Among them all
On the day
When the snowflakes have long stopped falling.
(Co-authored by several of our clients)
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