Authored: November 17, 2022

"When you live in the middle of nowhere, quarantine just means a few less lights on the horizon."

Everything was changing. No one knew what to expect. It was the most "unknown" that most of us have faced in our entire lives; for a brief time, our regular lives were uprooted, and we were faced with the howling existential abyss, and we didn't know how to react.

For just a small, exhilarating moment in time the streets were empty, people stopped and looked around, and the hum of humanity died down.

In a way, I miss it.

Distant memories pass me by, like rain falling to the ground
Where there was once people and cars
There's not a single sound
The sounds that were so familiar
Are now terrifying and new
And all the while I listen
As it's all I ever knew.