#pandemicwinter

A NEW PANDEMIC WINTER -2,021-2,022.

Only when you are broken

Will you discover the life

Beneath this life.

Only then will you walk along the street

With your children,

And be nowhere but with them.

All your ambition,

For a moment,A day, or a month, or a decade,

Is put aside;

Those pre-occupations you thought

Were your self,

Scattered like dust in the wind.

Life has broken you

So that you can kiss Its terrible, beautiful face.

Now you begin to hear

The beating drum,

The secret heart that lives

At the centre of the world.

~ Tom Hirons -