Sudden Change

Bard's Hall Entry for May 2020

Sudden change
is the Frankenstein
we all fear.

It is the death throes
of the status quo,
and the birth pangs
of a new normal.

It is the Apocalypse,
the meteorite
that destroyed the dinosaurs,
or the Lepidoptera larva
imprisoned in its pupa case.

Sudden change transforms
both mind and soul,
and gives birth
to a new civilization.

Author's Note: ▶︎

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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