Isolation

 

Sitting on my own

In social isolation

No one can visit

And I can visit no one

 

Coffee shops are shut

Life is on hold again

But even on my own

I am not alone

 

Because in my loneliness

Others are feeling the same

Distanced from friends

Not connected to the world

 

But in this, we are not alone

As you have gone before us

Because while you prayed

Your friends were sleeping

 

When you were arrested, they fled

They denied your existence

And the reality is

That this still happens

 

You were broken and mocked

No one came to your aid

You died on the cross alone

Feeling abandoned by all, even your Father

 

So now in the world of lockdown

On the days we are in quarantine

You are with us in our pain

As you have gone before us

 

Jo Anne Kennedy

October 2020