The Apocalypse of Being

Suddenly
The spaces we shared
Were emptied
And all that made us human
All that made us… us
Was gone

Slowly
We learned new ways
To have meaning
Purpose
New ways to love
And be loved
In return

Empty Spaces
Museu de les Ciències
Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències
Valencia, Spain

Taken during travels, yesterday, 2019

NaPoWriMo 2020
Day Fifteen; Poem One
Twenty-Nine poems total

#stayhome #washyourhands #wearamask #writepoetry

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Tatiana on Apr 15, 2020 at 8:09 am
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Will it only stop here? I think that we can do something about this…

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  Patrick Jennings on Apr 15, 2020 at 8:12 am
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  <smile> No. It won’t end here. However, we are already changed by this pause in our being.
  
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    Tatiana on Apr 15, 2020 at 8:55 am
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    We didn’t need nor deserve this. It is not right and I think it’s all artificially created by “Whoever” wants to manipulate us… It’s up to us to accept it or not (maybe it’s not yet too late)
    
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      Patrick Jennings on Apr 15, 2020 at 10:28 am
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      That conspiracy theory is gaining a lot of traction these days. I think that says more about how little control we feel we have, how little we feel we need or deserve what’s happening now. The answer that it is a random act of nature isn’t very satisfying. We want a conscious actor to blame, some act of evil to vent our anger upon.
      
      This pandemic seems much too large to be the result of a single mutated clump of molecules which is not only potentially fatal to human beings but is now also highly infectious. That is the simplest explanation. And it’s one that the vast majority of the scientific and medical community is reporting.
      
      I can’t even begin to imagine the size and complexity of the global conspiracy required to pull off the kind of conspiracies people are proposing, though plenty of people are going through all kinds of gyrations to try and concoct scenarios.
      
      Occam’s Razor: the simplest answer is often correct.
      
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  Patrick Jennings on Apr 15, 2020 at 8:15 am
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  Put another way, ‘The Apocalypse’ is often referred to as an “end time”. But in every apocalyptic mythology I know, the apocalypse is always a transition to another way of being.
  
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    Tatiana on Apr 15, 2020 at 8:57 am
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    I really hope it will be a happy one 🙂 But, it’s up to us.
    
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      Patrick Jennings on Apr 15, 2020 at 10:28 am
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      🙂 Agreed.
      
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Tatiana on Apr 15, 2020 at 9:00 am
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BTW: wonderful photo!

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  Patrick Jennings on Apr 15, 2020 at 10:29 am
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  Thanks! 🙂 One of those images that worked better than I thought it might. 😉
  
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M.B. Henry on Apr 15, 2020 at 2:24 pm
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Haunting… the photo and the words!

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  Patrick Jennings on Apr 15, 2020 at 3:45 pm
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  Thank you, M.B. 🙂 ❤
  
  The latter inspired by haunting times. The photo, just a timely happenstance finding an empty space in a beautiful place.
  
  Hmmmm…. it might be an interesting challenge to alter the context of the image with another poem in the next few days. 😉
  
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  Patrick Jennings on Apr 17, 2020 at 11:59 pm
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  Perhaps a little less haunting all around?
  
  Something a Little Bit Right
  
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    M.B. Henry on Apr 20, 2020 at 2:46 pm
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    Niiiiice! I would have done the same thing with sitting at the table!!
    
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      Patrick Jennings on Apr 20, 2020 at 5:59 pm
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      Johnny and I were pressed from the same mold in that particular personality trait.
      
      Good to know you’d have been seated at the table with us. 😉
      
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Something a Little Bit Right – Pix to Words on Apr 17, 2020 at 10:47 pm
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