It’s really lovely to be offline
and get away from the daily grind.
No WhatsApp friends who won’t answer the phone
just the joyful silence that grows loud when we’re alone.
Lessons that we all need to learn from life,
to be friends with ourselves. It feels really nice!
A post-lockdown poem from a time of tremendous change and over-busy, when WhatsApp replaced real.
It was just so challenging matching free time to talk to friends that I gave up, realizing I didn’t really need to go very far to find a friend.
I think this is poem for any time because we often forget that we ourselves, are the best friend we have. It’s the first friendship we must cultivate because it affects the quality of our friendships and relationships with others.
This poem was first published on October 13, 2020 at anitaelise.com and is no longer available there as my writing has moved to this blog. It’s also published at allpoetry.com
the relaxed housekeeper 