This pandemic has made me stop talking.

Has frozen my thoughts from being born.

Has stifled my creativity.

Has wrapped me in familiar trauma drenched bandages, made new.

It’s covered my eyes.

It’s muted the taste on my tongue.

This pandemic

has washed

up

and over

and through Me

diluted

me

I

don’t remember how to exist beyond the hours

of the similar days

I

don’t know…

#truestoriesof2020