{"id":21598,"date":"2021-03-26T18:35:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=21598"},"modified":"2021-03-26T18:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:35:57","slug":"the-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=21598","title":{"rendered":"The Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, on the first anniversary of the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first lockdown, UNITElive is featuring some of the top stories we have covered on the pandemic and our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 contributions, concerns and achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, we look back at poet Beaky’s reflections on lockdown back in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wave<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the window in my kitchen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early evening sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where the golden light above the greenwood glows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the long grass of the fallow field is gently blown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by the warm Springtime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s breath,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in a field full of wishes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There she sits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She sits for hours in the stillness of the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I watch her stillness from the sill of my window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wave back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in that wave we are joined by a rainbow bridge of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kindness.                                                                                                           <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nowadays, on a Thursday night<\/p>\n\n\n\n

stand we all together,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

upon our doorsteps, our driveways, by front gates,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clapping, cheering, shouting, whooping,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pans a-clattering, fireworks shooting – all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for the kindness of carers, health workers, bus drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposite stands a little girl in a pink and white dress,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hair in bunches,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

clutching at her daddy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leg as if she could never let him go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wave back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in that wave we are inspired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are community<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We care for each other<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are swimmers in an ocean of waves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are joined by a rainbow bridge of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have to stay home now<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to stay safe, can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the world still goes on around me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in my enclosure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can see the woman running, puffing, down the road,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The older couple marching apace to stay fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tesco delivery man parks up with goodies for those<\/p>\n\n\n\n

lucky to get a slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People talking, people walking,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People missing others they love, but cannot see<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cannot hold or hug or comfort them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there she is<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neighbour who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lived here longer than I<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neighbour I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never met before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming down the path to ask if I need anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Not today thanks Marie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, I shout from the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I wave at her<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And she waves back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evening now<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the sitter in the field has returned<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As has the golden glow in the sky beyond the greenwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then she waves at me, and through me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waving at the little girl, waving at Marie,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waving at all of us who have ever waved<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of us who have ever cared<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

joined by a rainbow bridge of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Beaky \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a Unite activist and occasional poet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YOU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122RE NOT ALONE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Unite can help<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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