Let’s Go Outside

I don’t usually use prompts, but last year I got inspired by one.
One day in March 2021, Robert Lee Brewer over at Writer’s Digest started a Poem a Day warm up for the 2nd ever April PAD Challenge, and the first prompt was: write a “Let’s” poem.
So I did.

Let’s Go Outside

Let’s go outside, I said.
It is so nice and sunny.
Let’s go outside, come on!
But I was feeling funny.

I’ve been cooped up so long
My life is feeling stale,
And the only highlight is
Getting something in the mail.

This virtual stuff is tiring,
My mind feels old and sluggish.
My energy is gone.
I mostly feel like rubbish.

This is no way to live.
Fuck off with your “new normal”!
I want my old life back,
This whole thing is abnormal!

I look out of the window.
It’s dark; a crow takes flight.
I wish I was a bird…
Take off into the night.

No borders, rules, restrictions,
No one to tell me “stop”.
Out of my cage forever,
Fly free until I drop.

~March 2021~

(Photo by Nijwam Swargiary on Unsplash)