Lockdown Lament

[60 words]

Alone and then, lonely – two different words,
So alike and yet standing apart;
One speaks of location, of not “being there,”
The other, of bruising the heart.

We may be at distance while we are confined,
Unable to share the same space;
Though love remains still and our hearts remain joined,
How we ache for that sweet face to face.

Dalton Key
10th and Rockford church of Christ
Tulsa, OK