Title: Interminable
Fandom: Original
Challenge: Sideways
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: Inspired by current events. Take care of yourself.
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: How long?




How long?
How long will the world sit sideways
Working from home
Working alone
Or not alone: too many demands
Not enough focus
Not enough and too much time
At once
Not enough
Never enough

How long?
How long will our hearts stand crosswise
Hoping, baking
Zooming, sewing, making
Keeping hands busy
(Busy as bees in spring -
Did you notice?
In some places it is Spring)
While far too many
Fall

How many?
How many will lie lengthwise
Crosswise, sideways,
Curled
In grief
In dust
This is an apocalypse
An end of the world
We none of us
Feel fine