Poems of Pandemic Days by Alice Curley

Theater is life

Lived bravely

Watched with courage

As we dare to feel

Ever present together

For two hours plus

In the stillness

Of human connection

You can hear a pin drop

With the recognition

Of the familiar

Laughter breaking down a wall

At all that is fleeting

Applause calls a curtain

Hands held with smiles found

With a united bow

We all rise up

We stand together somehow