THE NEW NORMAL

jerry KWATCHEY
@kwatcheyjerry128608
1 month ago

#poetry
THE NEW NORMAL

We live in a time
where the abnormal has learned to wear the face of normal,
and the normal is treated like a strange, outdated ritual.

Cheating on your wife is now casual.
Faithfulness is questioned,
studied like a rare behavior,
spoken of with suspicious curiosity.

Knowing where your spouse is
is no longer called care
it is branded control,
an invasion of privacy in a union built on trust.

Standards are labeled rigid.
Boundaries are mocked.
Accountability is avoided.

To drift without consequence is freedom.
To stand with intention is discomfort.

This is the age
where responsibility feels rebellious,
where discipline looks extreme,
where loyalty feels unnatural.

We did not lose our values overnight.
We renamed them.
We diluted them.
We made excuses fashionable
and commitment inconvenient.

And so, the abnormal became familiar.
The normal became strange.

This is the era we are living in
where the new normal
is simply the abnormal,
repeated long enough
to feel acceptable.

A Reflection from the SIMU Collection.

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