A Time Like Alice?

Think lock-down birthdays – they are new
Some are born in lock-down too!
This year is so unlike the past
Like Alice through the Looking-Glass* ...

Sports events are brushed aside
The sun shines but we stay inside
Like Pilate we must wash our hands;
Put off - our trips to other lands.

No summer sales though it's July
Mounds of stock unsold, stands by...
From dear friends we must stay aloof
Do all statistics tell the truth?

Free masks - but now a COVID tax?
The Government is short on facts!
Our lives more «virtual» than real
Poor substitute for how we feel...

But Alice comes back through the Glass
Is found asleep on summer grass;
How far extends this metaphor?
Life won't be as it was before ...

(c) Poet in the woods 2020



* published in 1871