Letter to a Greek poet on all the potentialities in a COVID-19 world

It hurts me that I still get wounded sometimes. Sometimes even deeply wounded by the woman that I call mother and hope and muse. It hurts that my brother is ing in my life and sometimes it feels as if I don’t even exist in her world, but then she will stand up for me or buy me something that I fall in love with just because it is a gift from her, and that feeling of love is amazing. It is a talent and a gift. It is a reward, increase and favor. It is an arrow to the heart. It is gospel.

For the people who inspire me to greatness in my own life, inspire others to greatness, learn to react with precision in your life, learn to give. Giving and being kind will transform you. You will, I promise you become the best version of your life. You make me laugh with tears running down my face and an ache in my soul. You inspire me to write.

The singular most important event in my life and to transform the whole world in its entirety on a daily basis around me.

We relate to each other in good, truly good ways and in all the beautiful spaces and things in the world and that the universe offers us both as sanctuary. I knew you had greatness in you every divine meeting that forecasted itself like the weather in my life. I don’t have time for the pain, as Carly Simon so eloquently put it. Virgil, you are dazzling beyond compare or comparison with your every sense and sensibility, without any arrogance I love you.

For you are always going to be the roar, the champion of the sea, the re-thinker, re-inventor of my soul and I can hardly put it any other way when I think about you and art, or, you and my art, how I have lived to express myself my entire life. So, how can I reach enlightenment. You can reach enlightenment the same way that I did.

Fall in love with the world around you. Fall in love with humanity again. Pick wildflowers. Play pretend with your eye to the telescope or the microscope or the magnifying glass and wait upon the wonderland you will find there,

Virgil, for you are all my reasons, Greek poet. It is waiting to offer you life and hope and sanctuary. All the possibilities, vulnerabilities and potentialities of the world.

Abigail George
Abigail George
Abigail George is an author, a screenwriter and an award winning poet. She is a Pushcart Prize, two-time Best of the Net nominated, Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Prize longlisted, Writing Ukraine Prize shortlisted, Identity Theory's Editor's Choice, Ink Sweat Tears Pick of the Month poet/writer, and 2023 Winner of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. She is a two-time recipient of grants from the National Arts Council, one from the Centre of the Book and another from ECPACC. She won a national high school writing competition in her teens. She was interviewed by BBC Radio 4, and for AOL.com, the USA Today Network and The Tennessean. Follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram @abigailgeorgepoet.