WAKING UP A CREATIVE LIGHT

Waking up beyond the old familiar places
Amongst the new routines, without traces
Of the deep caring and true smiles; within
A new confinement of fresh virtual spaces
In a homely familiarity, with disrupted faces.

Forced effort is required in moving away,
A familiar pressure, to prove, holding sway.
The virtualised need the clear winner; within
The closed room door it’s so easy to stay.
Next door children noisy and free, at play.

Venturing out to meet with the old teams,
Continually evolving, moving shared memes,
Forces a sharp reality and deep blow; within
The emotions surfacing, driven full steam,
Full realisation of our diverging streams.

Balancing the old with an acquired new reality
Leaves dreams strange, with unbalanced parity.
Healing will come with times mystery: without
Realities bite, beyond current virtual brevity,
The enjoyment of life holds a strange paucity.

So onwards towards the new teams embrace
Once we meet and see each other’s face
The feelings will depart and it begins: with
Joining fully the speeding new ventures race,
Another home to make, an exciting chase.

A feisty familiarity, common passions shared
A rigour of expertise, not easily compared
Falls fully formed and free in the flow: with
Laughter and joy filling shapes, easily snared,
It hides fear in my heart, still deeply scared.

How can the fool with Industries great tricks
Compare with the genius who carefully picks
The route for the many and not for the few: with
Humilities charm, and a careful pace, it will click
That moment will come soon where it all sticks.

Until the moment, with some travelling to go,
When the truth of emotions emerge in our flow
To-days storming and forming patterns can show
Awareness of what our current new ways know:
A spark of creativity was lit, almost fully aglow.

David Scanlon – England – (1963 - )

Scanlon. D (2017) Poetry for Business : Continuing Conversations. The Foolish Poet Press, Wilmslow, England. WAKING UP A CREATIVE LIGHT. Page Number 77.