Arlene Corwin writes

When This Is Over

When this is over

You’ll still have your character

To deal with.

Times will alter,

But there never is an after.

That’s to say, there is,

But business 

Is the thing: merely continuing:

Busyness and nothing more. 

And there you are,

Left with character,

Its strength and flaw,

To grow, evolve, refine, define

Through change and understanding,

Standing under with humility,

God, destiny, not pining 

From mistakes, goals missed 

And all the things ones’s pis_ed away from ignorance.

We’ve talents, gifts

To sift through, filter out;

Finding what we’re all about

To work and use

Amusing us and fusing them

To worlds around, 

To bond and bind societies;

Bid welcome to the mishy-mashy miscellany,

Watch the mind: it’s shifty, tricky;

Thus, the one security

Is to be found in in purity!

Work on it!