Those For Whom The Crisis Is An Opportunity Poem by Shalom Freedman

I know some happy exceptions
The people for whom the crisis is an opportunity
The parents happy not to have to work
To be able to give full time to their children
The ordinarily over- busy would be- writer or artist
With time to do now what they most love
The dealmaker seizing the way to make money from emergency supplies
There are after all the resilient ones
Those who in every situation look for the way
To use it to make the best of it
Sometimes wondering at my own lostness
I sense that for me too in some strange way
Being even more time alone than I so often ordinarily am
I will at last write what I now I cannot write
The masterpiece of my life
A crisis and a great opportunity for some
But no not for me at this time at my age now