Every day Normal is made
\nThere is never any normal
\nExcept the new normal
\nAnything else is nostalgia
\nCaught up in our fears
\nOf change and dreams of a past
\nPerhaps a past that never was
\nA past that only exists
\nBehind rose tinted glass
\nGrowing prettier each day
\nThe future becomes more frightening<\/p>\n
When the first planes
\nFlew through the sky
\nThey said it was a fad
\nIt would never last
\nPeople sought to buy the air
\nAbove their homes to keep the jets
\nFrom flying overhead
\nIt’s not normal! It’s an invasion!
\nOur Freedoms and our Privacy!
\nThey screamed that rebellions would rise
\nBut they didn’t
\nNow airplanes may annoy us, but they’re normal
\nThey’re convenient
\nOur world wouldn’t function ‘normally’
\nWithout them.
\nIt’s been the same again and again
\nWith the invention of the train
\nPeople went mad
\nThen the automobile
\nIt was the same!
\nThey were outrageous
\nNo one would ever prefer them
\nTo the comfort and style of
\nA horse and buggy
\nI don’t like the changes in the world
\nI like to hug people
\nI don’t like the masks
\nThey drive me crazy
\n(Truth be told, I am always
\nRunning back, I forget mine!)
\nI’m uneasy with many things that are happening
\nBut… I’m a mammal
\nWe are fundamentally adaptable.
\nIt’s what we do
\nAdapt, adopt and improve
\nOr die and get left in the muck and mire behind
\nThere is no ‘normal’ in human
\nWe are the abnormal growth on earth
\nOur choice is if we are a good or bad mutation
\nWe make bad choices
\nWe fail the mammal creed to
\nAdapt, adopt and IMPROVE
\nFailure to find a better path
\nIs failure of our species
\nIt’s not a video game
\nThere’s no second chances
\nWe’re all in this together, all of us abnormal
\nWe need to stop pointing fingers
\nStart inspiring each other to do better again
\nBy doing better ourselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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