Booderee National Park
THE MIND LEADS THE WAY
Eric Esber
Everything comes from the mind.
Your footy team loss on the weekend,
so you write something
that’s sad or negative.
The now and present
it will become the past
but for now
it’s what’s happening.
These lockdowns and restrictions.
Home time
stretches like the universe
the end so far away.
Mass boredom,
board games
thousands must have been sold
in just a few days.
The lines at Centrelink
go longer than the great wall of China,
while the PM
tries to save them.
Australians love our sport
all gone.
Can the seasons be saved!
will those trophies be lifted up?
The uncertainty
of what’s ahead
how much will be different,
what will survive.
Eric is a Western Sydney poet