Covid 19, Alert Level 2 & Trust

noise has returned
extraneous, intrusive, background, foreground
the noise of people going about their business
getting back to normal

strangely this makes me sad

the queue of people waiting to enter the shop goes round the block 
we decide to leave it for another day
the hand sanitiser at the supermarket smells like straight bourbon
people are close to me
i am the only one smiling
the grocery packer is back at the checkout
i realise all this time i could have been using my card & collecting airpoints
but where would we go anyway

this also makes me sad

they changed the rules 
when we weren't watching
some have been given too much power 
we have been denied the opportunity to govern ourselves . . . again
we have been denied the opportunity to care for ourselves . . . again
it seems we cannot be trusted 
​& yet we trusted 

this breaks me