Happy

i remember feeling lonely

and crying 

and feeling empty. 
i remember sobbing 

'i'm all alone' 

while my partner held me.

i felt isolated from my people 

from people like me

i felt displaced

as though i had been abducted 

and dropped into a strange land 

with strange people

and nothing was familiar. 

now we are all isolated 

from all people 

locked in the boxes we chose when we didn't realize 

we would have to live here

and I do not feel alone anymore. 

in my house i am not surrounded by people i do not understand 

and who do not understand me

my privacy keeps me company

my solitude and i enjoy understanding what the other wants 

which is nothing. 

i am surrounded by the familiar 

my people are online, like they always have been 

and the distance now doesn't seem so far. 

something something 

covid is the great equalizer 

no 

it's just a chance to play the prince and the pauper 

the madonna and the maid 

madonna isolated in her house of gold 

sobbing her loneliness 

the maid in her box

with everything she wanted