The new normal

They say time and tide wait for none, and so shouldn’t I,

But then it’s been ages, been a while,

That I felt elated, felt life on a note this high,

Feeling the emotional tank overflow, sigh!

Content, comfortable and smiling in my world,

In the new relations and rituals I was curled.

Blissfully unaware of what I had lost on the way,

Or maybe aware but keeping it all tucked away.

Don’t go that path; cautioned my mind,

Keeping turning away, an eye blind.

This new you has all the strength,

Go embrace it and tread the length.

Said my heart and good Lord I did hear it,

Not going to be easy so take it a bit by bit.

Easy it wasn’t, flowers and thorns alike,

I like the journey, as much as I now dislike.

Clear judgement of what’s right and wrong,

We are in the rightful places where we belong.

So lighten up, smile and keep it sort of formal,

After all this is going to be the new normal!